Nazo Puyo

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Nazo Puyo
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Compile
Genre: Puzzle
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1993-07-23 ¥15,80015,800 G-3224 JP ▼ 2013-09-25 ¥286 (300)286 (300)
Non-Sega versions PC-9801 UX

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Nazo Puyo (なぞぷよ) is a 1993 game for the Sega Game Gear by Compile spinning off Puyo Puyo. It was released exclusively in bundles with specially marked Game Gears in Japan (hence its price tag) and would go on to receive two sequels on the Game Gear (the latter receiving two sequels on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System) and many PC-98 games (one retail, the others as part of the DiscStation series) and would be retooled as the Puzzle Mode of the 8-bit version of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.

Gameplay

Nazo Puyo is basically the Mission Mode from the original MSX Puyo Puyo separated into its own game. There are two modes to play: Nazo Puyo, or Quest Mode (the main game), and a puzzle creator.

In Quest Mode, you are given a challenge and then a field that may or may not already have puyo in it. You must complete the challenge in the minimum number of puyo necessary. If you fail to, the game will generate a random string of puyo which will never allow you to complete the mission again, requiring you to either fill the screen or give up ( START ). Otherwise, controls are the same as Puyo Puyo.

If a field has puyo in it that are not all on the ground, or four or more puyo of the same color connected, you will be able to position one pair of puyo before they all fall down/are removed. This will be essential to completing such missions.

The puzzle creator allows you to make your own Nazo Puyo puzzles. Making puzzles requires navigating several screens through a menu (shown at right). The first screen lets you lay out the initial board; places a puyo, holding and moving the D-pad selects a puyo to place from the right. The second screen chooses a puzzle: and change the puzzle, and increase the number/changes the color, and / make a selection. The third screen chooses which colors of puyo will show up; / toggle. The fourth screen chooses the pairs of puyo that fall — controls are the same as those of the first screen, and after the eight one, the game will give two random colors. The fifth screen is the actual puzzle; the sixth returns to the main menu.

Puzzles

	N-rensa
	Get a chain of N [2,19] clears.
	Clear N
	Clear N [5,72] puyo at once
	Clear Color
	Clear all colored [pink, red, blue, green, yellow, nuisance] puyo from the field Note when building: each color is a separate mission, not variations on the same mission; if you do not have at least one of the color puyo on the field, the game will detect a win condition instantly and return you to the build menu
	All Clear
	Clear all puyo from the board (building conditions are the same as Clear Color)
	?
	Appears to be drop N [5,99] puyo; not entirely sure
	Clear N of Color
	Clear N [5,99] of a color puyo [red, pink, blue, yellow, green] at once Note when building: each color is a separate mission, not variations on the same mission
	Clear N Colors At Once
	Clear puyo of N [2,5] different colors at once
	?
	Appears to be the same as Clear N; though not entirely sure [5,99].

Magazine articles

Main article: Nazo Puyo/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-08: "August 1993" (1993-07-08)

Physical scans

Game Gear, JP
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 bcce5fd4 MD5 1f7f13111353aeb49205bb3fc1697dd8 SHA-1 6ad654e11067ed12437022fcf22b9fea9be7ac46	128kB		Cartridge (JP)
?	CRC32 d8d11f8d MD5 286df90c900f1923a404b617907472c9 SHA-1 7b19e92a85564b166c364d990d9d44f7e1113541	128kB		Cartridge (JP)	(Alt)

External links

• Sega of Japan 3DS VC catalogue pages: Game Gear
• Nintendo catalogue pages: JP