Panel de Pon 1995

Is it still worth playing?

A 1995 puzzle game for the Super Nintendo, with a Game Boy version a year later, released as Tetris Attack outside Japan. With a cursor you swap colored blocks into rows of three or more, which clear and let the blocks above fall, so chains and combos are possible. The pressure comes from below. Blocks rise steadily from the bottom, and the game ends if they touch the top. Its modes use that differently. Story Mode is a series of computer opponents, and Endless Mode lasts as long as the stack holds. In Timed Mode there are two minutes to score, and Stage Clear asks for every block under a line to be cleared. The Japanese version has fairies as its main characters. Swaps that set off chains, against a stack that never stops rising, still make it quick to pick up today.