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Repton Infinity (1988)

Duration: 5:45

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The concluding part of the fifth level of Robbo, the level which, at 23 minutes 25 seconds before speeding up, has taken me the longest of any level so far. It's not too difficult to finish the level off from the position reached at the end of the previous video, but working out how to clear the power stations is not easy. The best method is to send two lawnmowers into the extreme columns, so that after that you have space to push a lawnmower back towards the centre after clearing the second column from the edge. (Anyone using this video as a walkthrough and wanting to skip the boring bits can with a clear conscience stop watching at 3:12, when both power stations are free.)

A general tip for this level: the hardest grass sections to clear are those adjacent to immobile objects such as cola machines and toilets. Often, the best way to clear these is to first clear a row lower down (usually the row immediately beneath) so that the mower you use to clear the grass in the "target" row will have room to manoeuvre afterwards. Just remember that an immobile object essentially splits its row in half: you have to use one mower to mow the grass to its left, another to mow the grass to its right, so when pushing mowers down, always make sure you still have enough left further up.

At the end of the level I briefly show the map, to prove that I have reached the absolute maximum possible score for this level, as it is clear that none of the remaining grass can be cut (without, that is, losing at least one square that I did cut). The appearance of the level by the end is certainly striking!

The music for this video is the final movement of Beethoven's Fourteenth Piano Sonata.

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