Columns (Amiga)

Description: Manufacturer: Sega / Genre: Puzzle / Release Date: 1990

Newest Review: ... title of the #1 puzzler with the addictive tetris, but that wasnt going to stop Sega from trying their own version. They came out with columns in the early 90s to try and replicate the magic of the Gameboy classic. The idea was incredibly similar with you controlling blocks as the fell from the top of the screen trying to prevent the screen from filling up. Though the difference were in ... more

... the way you stopped it and the blocks coming down. Those who have played tetris will remember the blocks were differing shapes of 4 single blocks, which were to be used to make a straight line from one side to other to gain points and get rid of the blocks...more

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Columns (Amiga): Sega early attempt at a Tetris game (506 words)
by - written on 04/08/09 (Very useful, 23 readings)
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For those of a certain age long before playstations and xboxs there was only 2 consoles that would dominate the market. Back in the early 1990s it was the turn of the Sega Mega Drive and the Snes, Sonic v Mario. For there that can remember them times where school playgrounds were split into the two camps with fans of the plumber trying to explain how a fat italian was better than a blue hedgehog...idiots i tell you, back in the day it was all sonic. On that subject, its only since the n64 that this changed and mario took over as the premiere platform character. Well it wasnt just the mascots that were fighting for their console but also the ... Read the complete review