''Intersect'', known as ''Digidrive'' in North America and Japan, is a
puzzle
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video game
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developed by
Q-Games
Q-Games, Limited is a video game developer based in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan which works closely with both Nintendo and Sony.
Foundation
Q-Games was founded by Dylan Cuthbert, who previously worked at Argonaut Software and helped create ''Sta ...
and published by
Nintendo
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
for the
Game Boy Advance
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in 2006 exclusively in Japan. It is the only game in the ''
bit Generations
''bit Generations'' is a video game franchise for the Game Boy Advance, published by Nintendo. It was first announced under the name ''Digitylish'' at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2005. Each of the games in the series feature simp ...
'' series to not be developed by
Skip Ltd. It was later re-released for the
Nintendo DSi
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's
DSiWare
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digital distribution service, where it was released outside Japan for the first time.
The inspiration came from the police direction of the floats during the
Gion Festival
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in Kyoto.
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Gameplay
The objective of the game is to propel the disc-shaped corevto as many meters as possible before the piston collides into the core and ends the game. The player must direct up to three different varieties of "vehicle," each of a different color, into one of four different lanes. If five of the same vehicle fill up the same lane, a triangle will appear and the lane will change to the same color as the type of vehicle that entered this lane.
Once the player get all five cars of the same color in all four directions, it results in an overdrive, where they can send vehicles of their color in the direction of that color before the color in that direction goes away, but once the vehicle goes in the right direction, it fills that direction up. Overdrive ends when either a vehicle goes in the direction that does not match the color, or if a direction did not have a vehicle of that color in that direction in the last few seconds.
Reception
''Intersect'' has received a score of 83/100 on
Metacritic
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based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
References
DSiWare games
Game Boy Advance games
2009 video games
Puzzle video games
Video games developed in Japan
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Nintendo games
Single-player video games
Q-Games games