Puyo Puyo
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, MSX, Arcade, NEC PC-9801, Famicom, SNES, Game Boy, PC-Engine CD, N-Gage, Virtual Console, Windows 95 |
| Publisher: Sega, Various |
| Developer: Compile |
| Genre: Puzzle |
Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ, Puyopuyo) is a Japanese puzzle game developed by Compile for various consoles, including the Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, and Sega Game Gear. In North America and Europe, it was initially released with varying localizations, the Sega version being Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
Gameplay
The game is played with a multicolored set of blob-like creatures. They drop down from the top of the screen in sets of three, where the player must place these pieces such that four or more of the same color are adjacent to each other. Once matching, the adjacent colors disappear and blobs on top fall downwards. Chaining together multiple matches in a row scores more points. The player loses the game if the board is filled to the top.
In two-player mode, the players compete with each other by attempting to create more matching chains than the other, causing inconvenience to the other player by dropping dummy pieces onto their board. A player wins if the opponent's board is filled to the top.