Ataxx

Ataxx (アタックス) is a <a href="/facts/Strategy_video_game/NaBxMpy6">strategy video game</a> published in arcades by <a href="/facts/Leland_Corporation/ucJzBn5A">Leland Corporation</a> in 1990. Two players compete on a seven-by-seven square grid. The object of the game is for a player to have a majority of the pieces on the board at the end, by converting as many of their opponent's pieces as possible. In a single-player game, the opponents are "bio-invaders from a different dimension."
The concept was invented earlier by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley for the unreleased 1988 video game Infection. <a href="/facts/Virgin_Mastertronic/IwdKDRCf">Virgin Mastertronic</a> licensed it to Leland as well as using the design in its own <a href="/facts/Spot:_The_Video_Game/8ol5y7k6">Spot: The Video Game</a> released the same year as Ataxx. There are numerous independently developed <a href="/facts/Video_game_clone/gCMDXVeR">clones</a>. Although Ataxx was sold as a video game and not with a physical game board, it can be played with a <a href="/facts/Reversi/Bxp4jHAw">Reversi</a> set.

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