Pokémon Puzzle Challenge cover

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge 2000

Released
September 21, 2000
Genres
Platform · Puzzle · Strategy
Platforms
Game Boy Color · Nintendo 3DS
Developer
Intelligent Systems
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Digital
Physical

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Is it still worth playing?

A two square cursor swaps colored blocks along a row, and three or more of one color in a line disappear, in this 2000 puzzle game for the Game Boy Color, themed on Pokémon Gold and Silver. New blocks keep rising from the bottom of the grid, a button speeds that up, and the grid is only 6 by 9 because of the small screen. Clearing more than three at once makes combos, and a fall that clears more blocks makes a chain. Difficulty changes the number and arrangement of blocks, while speed is a separate setting. There are six modes: Marathon, Line Clear, Time Zone, Challenge, Puzzle and Garbage. In Challenge you fight gym leaders in turn by clearing lines, and in Puzzle you clear set blocks in a limited number of moves. The music reworks tracks from the first two generations of Pokémon. Speed and difficulty set separately and six modes still let you tune how hard it plays.

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