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Spectrum HoloByte |
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Drop groups of colored Qwirks (small blobby creatures that look a lot like the Vermicious Knids from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) to form clusters of 4 or more (no diagonals!) Practice by yourself, against a human or computer opponent, or puzzle mode!
Licensed by Spectrum HoloByte from its original creators, the Japanese studio known as Compile.
Read more about Qwirks and Puyo Puyo at Wikipedia.org.
See also: Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo 2, Puyo Puyo Fever, PuyoPuyo/Skittles/Candy Crisis, MacPuyo
For the "line 'em up" game by Adam Winiecki, see Qwerkz.
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EXTREMELY buggy on SheepShaver running MacOS 9.0.4, although i am not sure whether it's the emulator/OS or the game itself is buggy,
bugs include
> Garbage puyos dropping in the middle of a chain, or even fail to drop, very annoying if you're making 4- and 5- chains
> It appears that you/computer can stay alive for a few more seconds even if the 3rd column is filled to the top (normal Puyo Puyo has it that you lose once the 3rd column reaches the top)
> puzzle mode - no playfield boarder appear anywhere , so the puyos appear floating in the middle of the background
Fine then. Anything dated AFTER DRMBM is a rip-off.
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/puyo-puyo-games
Which is ripping off the ORIGINAL game, probably illegally, from 1993: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, on the Sega Mega Drive.
Thanks Bugman, I've been scouring the internet looking for a cheap copy of this for ages, but could only find PC versions for cheap, not Mac. It's actually Puyo Puyo, a Japanese game that Spectrum Holobyte licensed and slapped their own identity on. Looking forward to checking it out.
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