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I'm aware of BoulderDash being released on the following platforms:
One of the disks has good ol' Boulder Dash on it, ©1984 First Star Software, by Peter Liepa with Chris Gray. However, another disk has a different version that includes an editor. It is ©1986 First Star Software; the author is Jeffrey Schneider, with game puzzles designed by Fernando Herrera.The opening screen is just like the usual Boulder Dash, only the scrolling field behind the title moves more slowly. Also, it has a lot of things I recall seeing in Boulder Dash 2: namely, walls that turn boulders into diamonds and vice-versa, levels on which Rockford moves at an insanely fast pace, amoebas (or did the first version have these too?).
Once you've loaded a game (there are two included with it), you can select the starting level with the joystick.
There was an apparently commercial version of Boulder Dash for the Atari ST that I came across a few years ago. This version included an editor. It was quite faithful to the Atari 8-bit version, but just wasn't the same for some reason. :)
The original Boulder Dash was for the Atari 400/800, and was ported to C64 about a year later. There was also a PC version published by Electronic Arts.Andrew Bennett has written some stuff about the history of the BBC/Electron official implementation, released in Jan 1987.Commercial BD is not totally dead [Sep 1995]. There were Nintendo and GameBoy ports a few years ago, and possible new ports to other platforms and OSs are being contemplated.
Isn't there some phrase that says, "imitation is the highest form of flattery"? If so, I'd say it's rather appropriate. The sheer number of clones released really do indicate that Boulder Dash was and is a fantastic game.