Puzzle games
Falling blocks and brain teasers: quick to start and hard to put down.
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- Puzzle Bobble (Arcade, 1994, Taito): Aim and fire colored bubbles to clear the board before it drops. Bub and Bob's puzzle classic.
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Arcade, 1996, Capcom): Chibi Street Fighters battle with falling gems: build power gems and break them on your rival.
- Panic Bomber (Arcade, 1994, Hudson Soft): Bomberman's falling-block puzzler: line up colors, then set off bombs to blast garbage onto your rival.
- Puzzle Bobble 2 (Arcade, 1999, Taito): Bub and Bob return with new stages and branching routes in the bubble-popping sequel.
- Magical Drop III (Arcade, 1997, Data East): Grab and throw balloons to make matches in this frantic, chain-reaction puzzler.
- Neo Bomberman (Arcade, 1997, Hudson Soft): Drop bombs, trap your rivals and blow up the maze in Bomberman's arcade outing.
- Twinkle Star Sprites (Arcade, 1996, SNK): A head-to-head shooter where every chain you make sends attacks to your rival's side.
- Tetris (Atari) (Arcade, 1988, Atari Games): Atari's arcade take on the falling-block classic, with side-by-side two-player games.
- Tetris (Sega) (Arcade, 1988, Sega): Sega's arcade Tetris, the version that made the game a phenomenon in Japanese arcades.
- Pang (Arcade, 1989, Mitchell): Pop bouncing balloons with a harpoon as they split into smaller and smaller pieces.
- Super Pang (Arcade, 1990, Mitchell): More balloon-popping across world tours and an endless panic mode.
- Arkanoid (Arcade, 1986, Taito): Bounce the ball off the Vaus paddle to break every brick, grabbing power-ups as they fall.
- The Lost Vikings (Super Nintendo, 1992, Interplay): Three Vikings with different skills work together to escape an alien zoo.
- The Lost Vikings 2 (Super Nintendo, 1997, Interplay): The three Vikings return with new gadgets and new friends to puzzle their way home through time.
- Tetris (Nintendo) (NES, 1989, Nintendo): Nintendo's version of the falling-block classic: turn and drop the pieces, clear lines and see how long you last as the speed climbs.
- Tetris 2 (NES, 1993, Nintendo): A colorful twist on Tetris: line up three of a color to clear the flashing blocks, alone or head to head with a friend.
- Blast Corps (Nintendo 64, 1997, Nintendo): A runaway truck carrying nuclear missiles can't stop, so demolish every building in its path with bulldozers, mechs and wrecking machines.
- Adventures of Lolo (NES, 1989, HAL America): Lolo pushes blocks, grabs hearts and turns snakes into eggs across 50 single-screen rooms to rescue Princess Lala from the Great Devil's castle.
- Dr. Mario (NES, 1990, Nintendo): Drop two-colored capsules into a bottle to line up four of a color and wipe out the viruses, alone or head to head, to the Fever and Chill tunes.
- Tetris & Dr. Mario (Super Nintendo, 1994, Nintendo): Both puzzle classics on one cartridge, redrawn for the SNES, with a Mixed Match mode that plays them back to back against a friend.
- Tetris Attack (Super Nintendo, 1996, Nintendo): Panel de Pon with Yoshi's friends: slide blocks sideways to match three, chain combos to dump garbage on your opponent, in the best two-player puzzle game on the system.
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Puyo Puyo with Robotnik's robots: match four colored beans to drop refugees on your opponent, through a ladder of thirteen machines or head to head.
- Catrap (Game Boy, 1990, Asmik): Catboy and Catgirl push boulders onto monsters in 100 single-screen puzzles, with a rewind button that undoes mistakes and a level editor.
- Dr. Mario (Game Boy) (Game Boy, 1990, Nintendo): Stack capsules in the bottle to clear viruses in the Game Boy Dr. Mario, with the Fever and Chill tunes along for the ride.
- Mario's Picross (Game Boy, 1995, Nintendo): Chisel out hidden pictures from the numbers along the rows and columns, in the nonogram puzzle that Mario took worldwide.
- Mole Mania (Game Boy, 1997, Nintendo): Muddy Mole burrows under walls and pushes iron balls through puzzle rooms to rescue his family from farmer Jinbe, in a Miyamoto-produced gem.
- Tetris (Game Boy) (Game Boy, 1989, Nintendo): The Tetris that came with the Game Boy: Type A for score, Type B for lines, and the Korobeiniki tune the world now knows as Tetris music.
- Yoshi (Game Boy, 1992, Nintendo): Stack falling Goombas, Boos and Bloopers in four columns and sandwich them between eggshell halves to hatch Yoshis, in Game Freak's puzzle game.
- Pokémon Puzzle League (Nintendo 64, 2000, Nintendo): Tetris Attack with the Pokémon cartoon's trainers: slide panels, chain combos and fight through eight gym leaders, with a 3D cylinder mode.
- Tetrisphere (Nintendo 64, 1997, Nintendo): Slide blocks around a sphere to expose its core, with combos, special powers and a trance soundtrack, in a Tetris in name only.
- Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3 (Game Boy Color, 1999, Nintendo): Bugs Bunny hunts keys through the rooms of a haunted castle while dodging Yosemite Sam, Sylvester and friends, in the puzzle-platform series' third outing.
- Magical Tetris Challenge (Game Boy Color, 2000, Capcom): Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy play Tetris with magical twists, where cleared lines send bigger, stranger pieces into the rival's well.
- Mr. Driller (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 2000, Namco): Susumu Hori drills down through colored blocks, which clear when four or more of a color touch, while racing his air supply to the bottom.
- Pokémon Puzzle Challenge (Game Boy Color, 2000, Nintendo): Swap blocks to line up three of a color and chain combos in the Panel de Pon style, battling Johto's Gym Leaders with Pokémon from Gold and Silver.
- Tetris DX (Game Boy Color, 1998, Nintendo): Tetris in color, with Marathon, Ultra, 40 Lines and a vs. computer mode, and high scores saved for several players.
- Toki Tori (Game Boy Color, 2001, Capcom): A little chick uses bridges, teleporters and freeze guns to collect every egg in each puzzle stage, in Two Tribes' Game Boy Color debut.
- Big Brain Academy (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Dr. Lobe grades your brain on quick tests of thinking, memory, analysis, math and identification, and weighs it in grams.
- Bust-A-Move DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Majesco Entertainment): Aim and launch colored bubbles with the stylus, banking them off the walls to match three and drop the clusters, in Taito's puzzle classic.
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Donkey Kong carries off Pauline, and you steer marching Mini Mario toys to the exit by drawing girders, belts and springs into place.
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Guide wind-up Mini Mario toys through puzzle rooms with the stylus to reach Donkey Kong, who has run off with Pauline.
- Meteos (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Line up three or more matching blocks to rocket them back into space, saving planets from the falling Meteos.
- Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits (Nintendo DS, 2005, Namco): Susumu and friends drill down through colored blocks, racing their air supply, across new courses and modes.
- Pac-Pix (Nintendo DS, 2005, Namco): Draw Pac-Man with the stylus and he comes to life, gobbling the ghosts that escaped from a magic book.
- Peggle: Dual Shot (Nintendo DS, 2009, PopCap Games): Aim a ball and watch it bounce down through a field of pegs, clearing the orange ones with help from the Peggle Masters' powers.
- Picross 3D (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Chip away blocks using number clues to reveal 3D objects hidden inside each puzzle, turning the shape with the stylus.
- Picross DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Fill grids using number clues to reveal pixel pictures, in the picture-logic puzzle game played with the stylus.
- Planet Puzzle League (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Swap panels with the stylus to line them up and chain combos in Panel de Pon, with the DS held sideways.
- Polarium (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Draw one unbroken line through tiles to flip them between black and white, clearing every row in a stylus puzzle game.
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke look into a village's hidden inheritance, solving more than a hundred brain teasers along the way.
- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Layton and Luke follow a box said to kill whoever opens it aboard the Molentary Express, puzzle by puzzle.
- Professor Layton and the Last Specter (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): Layton meets Luke for the first time as a specter terrorizes the town of Misthallery, in a prequel packed with puzzles.
- Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A letter from Luke's future self leads Layton to a London ten years ahead, in a mystery with more than 160 puzzles.
- Puyo Pop Fever (Nintendo DS, 2005, Atlus): Drop pairs of colored Puyo and pop groups of four to set off chains, with Fever mode raining ready-made combos.
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Nintendo DS, 2007, D3 Publisher): A fantasy RPG fought by matching gems: lines of three deal damage, earn mana and win gold across the land of Etheria.
- Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (Nintendo DS, 2009, D3 Publisher): Puzzle Quest in space: hack jump gates, mine asteroids and fight starship battles by matching gems on a hexagonal board.
- Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS, 2009, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Maxwell summons any object you write, from a ladder to a dragon, to solve each puzzle and collect the Starite.
- Soul Bubbles (Nintendo DS, 2008, Eidos Interactive): A young shaman blows bubbles carrying lost souls through strange worlds, shaping and splitting them with the stylus.
- Super Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS, 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Maxwell can now summon objects with adjectives, like a giant flying pink rhino, to solve every puzzle.
- Tetris DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Tetris with modes themed on Nintendo classics, from Super Mario Bros. to Metroid, plus Push and Touch modes.
- Tetris Party Deluxe (Nintendo DS, 2010, Hudson Soft): Classic Tetris and a dozen new modes, from Stage Racer to Shadow, with touch-screen stages.
- Zoo Keeper (Nintendo DS, 2004, Ignition Entertainment): Swap animals with the stylus to line up three in a row and catch them before time runs out.