Digital Upgrade: A Flash-based Puzzle Game

Digital Upgrade is a Flash-based puzzle game created by Newgrounds.com programmer iluvAS and Newgrounds.com artist Argentin. The song used in the game is titled RedMoon - Digital Upgrade and was created by Newgrounds.com user Bahdshah. Digital Upgrade was submitted to Newgrounds.com on November 10, 2010 and won a Daily 3rd Place award on November 11, 2010. This Flash animation currently holds a score of 4.13 out of 5.00 based on votes by the Newgrounds community.

Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the falling pieces around. Use the left and right arrow keys to move the piece left and right, respectively. Use the up arrow to rotate the piece. Press the down arrow to drop the piece to the bottom of the screen. When you successfully match up three of the same pieces, they will transform into an upgraded version.

When you start the game, you will see the order of upgrades depicted in a column on the left hand side of the screen. At the top of the column, at the top left hand corner of the screen, is the first unit, which is a green virus looking thing. Putting three of these together will have them upgrade to one red virus, which is shown under the green virus at the left hand side of the screen. Combing three red viruses will produce one blue fuzzy looking virus. Three of those will give you a blank screen that looks like a terminal screen. Three of those will get you a blue folder. Three blue folders produces a chip, three of which gives you a larger chip. Three large chips gives you a floppy disk, and three floppy disks gives you a compact disk. Three CDs will get you a USB drive, and three USB drives gets you a harddrive. Three harddrives yields a computer. Finally, three computers gets you a globe.

Try to make appropriate combinations to make upgrades to create space for upcoming pieces. Once you cross the line near the top of the screen, the game will end.

On the ride hand corner of the screen, you can toggle the music. You can also exit the game. Below these two buttons is a large blue screen with a face and blinking eyes. Click on this screen to access the instructions for the game. Below the blue screen is the next set of pieces that will come up.

There are twenty different achievements that you can obtain by playing this game. The list of achievements that you have obtained can be accessed from the game's title screen.