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Developer: California Dreams, Logical Design Works | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Rob Hubbard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Puzzle[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blockout (ブロックアウト) is a puzzle game developed by California Dreams and published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Mega Drive in 1991. It has also been released for other consoles and computers.
The game can be seen almost as "3D Tetris". The game has a top-down perspective, with the primary objective being to clear "floors" rather than lines. Like Tetris, the player is given a series of shapes made up of cubes, which can be rotated on all three axes. Also like Tetris, if the player's pieces reach the top of the screen (i.e. some floors have gaps in them), the player will lose.
The formula behind Blockout has been recycled and rebranded numerous times, just like Tetris.
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Production credits
- Original Design by: Alexander Ustaszewski
- Genesis Programming by: Edwin W. Reich, Jr., Steve Hayes
- Graphics by: Gary Martin
- Sound and Music by: Michael Bartlow
- Technical Director: Richard Hicks
- Produced by: Richard Robbins
- Assistant Producers: Jeff Haas, John Manley
- Special Thanks To: John Tomlinson
Magazine articles
- Main article: Blockout/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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128kB | 1991-06 | Cartridge (US/EU) | EA version |
References
- ↑ File:Blockout MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 46
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 ', "" (; ), page 113
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 48
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 23
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 38
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 127
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 36
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 52
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 38
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 80
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 101
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 88
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 46
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 189
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 63
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 101
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 19
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 83
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 84
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 76
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 49
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 113
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 137
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 128
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 48
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 22
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 52
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 27
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 87
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Tetris and Tetris-like games for Sega systems/developed by Sega | |
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Sega: Tetris (1989) | Flash Point (Mega Drive) (1989) | Bloxeed (1989) | Sega Tetris (1999) | Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 28: Tetris Collection (2006) | Tetris Giant (2010) | Puyo Puyo Tetris (2014) | Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (2020) | |
Third-Party: Blockout (1991) | Tetris Plus (1996) | Tetris S (1996) | Tetris 4D (1998) | The Next Tetris: On-Line Edition (2000) | Tetris Kiwamemichi (2004) | Tetris The Grand Master 4: The Masters of Round (unreleased) | |
Unlicensed: Super Columns (1990) | Super Tetris (19xx) | Flashpoint (19xx) | |
Tetris related media | |
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