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The Atari Lynx version of the game was reviewed in 1992 in Dragon #181 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.
Ishido was rated 'Five Mice' by MacUser, which called it a "flawless" strategy game "in the 'a minute to learn, a lifetime to master' tradition" but criticized the limited edition release's price.
PC Magazine said the game was simple enough to be almost immediately accessible and enjoyable, yet complex enough to provide hours and hours of challenging play.
Macworld named the Macintosh version of Ishido: The Way of Stones the Best Brain Teaser game of 1990, complimenting its need for strategy and "entrancing" graphics, alongside the feature of being able to create custom gamepieces; Macworld put Ishido into their Macintosh Game Hall of Fame.
Then the following year, 1990, Accolade published the first mass-market version for the Macintosh, with conversions to MS-DOS, Amiga, Game Boy, and Genesis in the same year.
Ishido was rated 'Five Mice' by MacUser, which called it a "flawless" strategy game "in the 'a minute to learn, a lifetime to master' tradition" but criticized the limited edition release's price.
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