Clik Clak (AMI)

Clik Clak

Platform: Amiga Year: 1992 Developer: Idea

Clik Clak (a.k.a. Gear Works in North America) is an action puzzle game where your job is to install clocks into 12 world monuments. You are given gear wheels at random sizes and must insert them onto pegs in order to connect all red wheels already fixed. At the same time, the engine is heating and two poffins hop around unscrewing pegs and rusting wheels. You have a limited supply of shots to chase away the pests, bombs to remove misplaced wheels, and oil to derust. Coins can be earned to stock up your supply, but points are deducted for unconnected wheels. After completing a level, an animated photo of the improved monument is shown.

Screenshots

The silent loading screen. The main menu. At the next cuckoo call, it's level 1... ...which consists of 5×2 screens. My gear is running. Uh, but why is he hopping? Win ammo, bombs and oil!

Music

The pop music and piano cues are driving, bouncy and suit the samples, although many of them are recognizable from The Ultimate Soundtracker (AMI) and may feel cold. The songs and the music driver use only 3 voices, while the game uses the 4th for sound effects.

Some songs are also used in the Commodore 64 and DOS versions, whereas some have been replaced by others. All titles are unofficial and numbered uniquely among the three versions. The in-game song changes every level, in the same order as in the table below. Which platform's music was done first is unknown.

Over the completion photo and ending, no music plays.

Recording

To record, all sound effect samples on disk were filled with zeroes and the game played:

1. in WinUAE 3.6.1 with NTSC off.
2. in WinUAE 4.4.0 with NTSC on.

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Intro 1	Paolo Galimberti	1:52		Download
102	Progress 1	Paolo Galimberti	0:03		Download
103	In-Game 1	Paolo Galimberti	3:29		Download
104	In-Game 2	Paolo Galimberti	2:15		Download
105	In-Game 3	Paolo Galimberti	2:43		Download
106	Slot	Paolo Galimberti	0:25		Download
107	Game Over 1	Paolo Galimberti	0:01		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
201	Intro 1	Paolo Galimberti	1:35		Download
202	Progress 1	Paolo Galimberti	0:03		Download
203	In-Game 1	Paolo Galimberti	2:56		Download
204	In-Game 2	Paolo Galimberti	1:54		Download
205	In-Game 3	Paolo Galimberti	2:18		Download
206	Slot	Paolo Galimberti	0:22		Download
207	Game Over 1	Paolo Galimberti	0:01		Download

Credits

• Ripper: ExoticA (uncompressed songs), Professor Chaos (the rest)
• Recorder: Professor Chaos
• Game Credits:
  • Musics: Paolo Galimberti
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: Pex Tufvesson
  • Not Credited Programmer: Anders Berkeman

(Source for Galimberti: Main menu. Source for programmers: Comparison with Noisetracker V1.0 driver source.)

Game Rip

Format	Download
	Download (Info)

Audio Devices

This game uses the computer's built-in Paula chip. On NTSC, everything plays 20% faster and 1% higher.

Releases

In Clik Clak, level 6 cannot be solved due to an unreachable red wheel. This is fixed in Gear Works.

France Title: Clik Clak Platform: Amiga Released: 1992-0?-?? Publisher: Idea     Germany Title: Clik Clak Platform: Amiga Released: 1992-0?-?? Publisher: Idea     Italy Title: Clik Clak Platform: Amiga Released: 1992-0?-?? Publisher: Idea     UK Title: Clik Clak Platform: Amiga Released: 1992-0?-?? Publisher: Idea     USA Title: Gear Works Platform: Amiga Released: 1993-07-?? Publisher: Hollyware Entertainment

Links

• mobygames.com/game/amiga/gear-works - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/amiga/936858-clik-clak - GameFAQs.

View Clik Clak
Clik Clak	•  •
Gear Works	•
Notable Songs
Notable Personnel	Paolo Galimberti • Peter Hennig
Notable Companies	Idea