Columns Crown

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JP

Columns Crown

System(s): Game Boy Advance

Publisher: Sega Corporation (Japan) Sega Europe (Europe) THQ (US)

Developer: WOW Entertainment, WillLink (main program, general graphics, sound direction^[1])

Distributor: Infogrames Europe (Europe)

Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable

Genre: Puzzle

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2001-12-13^[7]	¥4,800 (5,040)4,800 (5,040)^[7]	AGB-P-ACGJ AGB-ACGJ-JPN
US	2002-01-09^[5]	$39.9939.99^[6]	AGB-P-ACGE AGB-ACGE-USA
DE	2002		AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-NOE
ES	2002		AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-ESP
FR	2002		AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-FRA
IT	2002		AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-ITA
UK	2001-12-07^[2]^[3]	£32.9932.99^[4]	AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-UKV

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Columns Crown (コラムスクラウン) is a puzzle game developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It was relased as part of the Columns series of games. A working title for this game was Advance Columns (アドバンスコラムス).

Like the original Columns and its many derivatives, the object of Columns Crown is to match up jewels either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally in groups of three or more. Very little is added to this Game Boy Advance adaption that was not seen in previous varients of Columns, other than a story and revised graphics. There is also a multiplayer option played via the Game Boy Advance Link Cable.

2005's 2 in 1: Sonic Pinball Party & Columns Crown and 2008's 2 Games in 1: Columns Crown & ChuChu Rocket! also contains this game.

Production credits

Executive Producer: Rikiya Nakagawa
Director: Masamoto Morita
Programmers: Akira Oomi, Kazuhiko Maeda
CG Designers: Naohiro Ninomiya, Mikio Irinaka, Risa Kawasumi, Tomohisa Tsunoda, Noriyuki Kuraba, Mamoru Ikeuchi, Katsunori Matsui
Sound Director: Yuji Ogawa
Assistant Directors: Masaharu Imaoka, Kyoko Asoh
MC: Nanae Kenda
Publicity: Noriko Yamada, Takuya Tsunomura
Translation: Klayton Vorlick, Gerardo Sprigg
Special Thanks: Masaharu Terabata, Jun Kaga

Original Game ©SEGA

©WOW Entertainment Inc./SEGA, 2001

Source:

In-game credits^[8]

VP of Product Development: Jin Shimazaki
Localization Manager: Osamu Shibamiya
Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
Lead Tester: Chester Lee
Assistant Lead Tester: Derek Wong
Testers: Davidson Talag, Alex Vaughan, Neil Sorens, Ramin Rouya, Eric Ling, Amy-Geene Williamson
Group Director of Marketing: Mike Fischer
Product Manager: Rich Briggs
Associate Product Manager: Noah Musler
Creative Services Director: Bob Schonfisch
Creative Services Designer: Vicki Morawietz
Public Relations: Gwen Marker, Teri Higgins
Special Thanks: Peter Moore, Chris Gilbert, Jane Thompson, Izora Garcia de Lillard, John Amirkhan, Joe Aragones, Shinobu Shindo, Makoto Nishino, Yoshihiro Sakuta, Kyoko Drumheller, Sandy Castagnola

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Columns Crown/Magazine articles.

Artwork

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

75

^[9]

Advance (DE)

PAL

80

^[10]

Advance (UK)

PAL

70

^[11]

Cube (UK)

PAL

82

^[12]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

45

^[13]

GameNOW (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[14]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

73

^[15]

GameBoy Magazyn (PL)

70

^[16]

GBX (UK)

86

^[4]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

56

^[17]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

80

^[18]

NGC Magazine (UK)

0

^[19]

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK)

PAL

80

^[20]

Nintendo Power (US)

NTSC-U

76

^[21]

	66
Based on 14 reviews

Columns Crown

Game Boy Advance, US
Cover

Game Boy Advance, JP
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, UK
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, FR

Cart

Game Boy Advance, DE
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, ES

Game Boy Advance, IT
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	330a0975
MD5	d96e8659db64595a5ee7234145ebdc66
SHA-1	9d3982d3e42bf1e2bae78c2965184629383f7247

8MB

Cartridge (EU)

✔

CRC32	a592f7df
MD5	1f5a23d069bf42a1f3131e8c5a574efb
SHA-1	70a7229a57f4a296a661136e07e23668011310bf

8MB

Cartridge (JP)

?

CRC32	6242ffb2
MD5	38f369f1ca0872790995943e8cb4a877
SHA-1	f11c7a225524d418907e42666b33649b585fb6d4

8MB

Cartridge (US)

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Game Boy Advance (archive)
Nintendo catalogue pages: JP, US (archive)

References

↑ https://www.will-link.co.jp/works.htm
↑ http://chipsworld.co.uk/DetProd.asp?ProductCode=5121 (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-30 08:14)
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/656038/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-12 14:26)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 GBX, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-06), page 29
↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=807 (Wayback Machine: 2003-06-19 16:39)
↑ File:SegaTHQGBAArtAssets ColumnsCrown ColumnsGBAOneSheet.pdf
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 http://sega.jp/gba/columnsc/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-18 10:20)
↑ File:Columns Crown GBA credits.pdf
↑ 576 Konzol, "Március 2002" (HU; 2002-xx-xx), page 63
↑ Advance, "2/2002" (DE; 2002-xx-xx), page 46
↑ Advance, "Spring 2002" (UK; 2002-xx-xx), page 64
↑ Cube, "Issue Three" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 114
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2002" (US; 2002-02-06), page 146
↑ GameNOW, "December 2001" (US; 2001-11-13), page 34
↑ GamePro, "January 2002" (US; 200x-xx-xx), page 67
↑ GameBoy Magazyn, "Kwiecień 2002" (PL; 2002-xx-xx), page 20
↑ Game Informer, "December 2001" (US; 2001-1x-xx), page 120
↑ MAN!AC, "02/2002" (DE; 2002-01-02), page 86
↑ NGC Magazine, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 55
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine, "February 2002" (UK; 2002-01-15), page 36
↑ Nintendo Power, "March 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 136

Columns Crown
	Main page \| Comparisons \| Development \| Magazine articles \| Reception No results

Games in the Columns Series
Columns (1990) \| Columns II: The Voyage Through Time (1990) \| Columns III: Revenge of Columns (1993) \| Stack Columns (1994) \| Super Columns (1995) \| Columns '97 (1996) \| Hanagumi Taisen Columns (1997) \| Columns Arcade Collection (1997) \| Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters (1999) \| Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 (2000) \| Columns Crown (2001) \| Columns Jewel (2005) \| Columns Deluxe (2008) \| Jewelpet Kira Kira Mahou no Housekibako (2009) \| Sega Ages Columns II (2019)
Columns Taisen Mode Tsuki (1991) \| Columns (Mame Game) (1997) \| Columns (Pocket Boy) (1997) \| Columns for Zaurus (2001) \| Columns for Clié (2002)
Unlicensed Columns games
	Super Columns (1990)
Columns Related Media
	Columns・Columns II (1991)
	Hanagumi Taisen Columns Official Guide (1997) \| Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 Perfect Guide (2000)

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[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20011230081416.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fchipsworld.co.uk.2FDetProd.asp.3FProductCode.3D5121-2] ttp://chipsworld.co.uk/DetProd.asp?ProductCode=5121 (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-30 08:14)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20011212142627.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.amazon.co.uk.2Fexec.2Fobidos.2Ftg.2Fbrowse.2F-.2F656038.2F-3] ttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/656038/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-12 14:26)

[:File:GBX_UK_09.pdf_p29-4] 4.0 ^4.1 GBX, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-06), page 29

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20030619163939.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.nintendo.com.2Fgames.2Fgamepage.2Fgamepage_main.jsp.3FgameId.3D807-5] ttp://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=807 (Wayback Machine: 2003-06-19 16:39)

[:File:SegaTHQGBAArtAssets_ColumnsCrown_ColumnsGBAOneSheet.pdf_p-6] File:SegaTHQGBAArtAssets ColumnsCrown ColumnsGBAOneSheet.pdf

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20011218102029.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fgba.2Fcolumnsc.2F-7] 7.0 ^7.1 http://sega.jp/gba/columnsc/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-18 10:20)

[:File:Columns_Crown_GBA_credits.pdf_p-8] File:Columns Crown GBA credits.pdf

[9] 576 Konzol, "Március 2002" (HU; 2002-xx-xx), page 63

[:File:Advance_DE_02.pdf_p46-10] Advance, "2/2002" (DE; 2002-xx-xx), page 46

[:File:Advance_UK_02.pdf_p64-11] Advance, "Spring 2002" (UK; 2002-xx-xx), page 64

[:File:Cube_UK_03.pdf_p114-12] Cube, "Issue Three" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 114

[:File:EGM_US_152.pdf_p146-13] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2002" (US; 2002-02-06), page 146

[:File:GameNOW_US_02.pdf_p34-14] GameNOW, "December 2001" (US; 2001-11-13), page 34

[:File:GamePro_US_160.pdf_p67-15] GamePro, "January 2002" (US; 200x-xx-xx), page 67

[16] GameBoy Magazyn, "Kwiecień 2002" (PL; 2002-xx-xx), page 20

[:File:GameInformer_US_104.pdf_p120-17] Game Informer, "December 2001" (US; 2001-1x-xx), page 120

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2002-02.pdf_p86-18] MAN!AC, "02/2002" (DE; 2002-01-02), page 86

[:File:NGCMagazine_UK_065.pdf_p55-19] NGC Magazine, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 55

[:File:NOM_UK_113.pdf_p36-20] Nintendo Official Magazine, "February 2002" (UK; 2002-01-15), page 36

[:File:NintendoPower_US_154.pdf_p136-21] Nintendo Power, "March 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 136

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Production credits

Magazine articles

Artwork

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References