Puyo Puyo

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Puyo Puyo(ぷよぷよ) is the first game in the series, made in 1991 by Compile, using characters from Madou Monogatari. It was created by Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani, the founder of Compile, who was inspired by certain elements from the Tetris and Dr. Mario series of games.

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Single Puyo Puyo 1.2 Double Puyo Puyo 2 Characters 2.1 Main characters 2.2 Beginner levels 2.3 Normal levels 2.4 Difficult levels 2.5 Final levels 3 Original version and ports 4 External links

Gameplay

Main article: Gameplay

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The main game of Puyo Puyo is played against at least one opponent, computer or human. The game itself has three modes, Single Puyo Puyo, Double Puyo Puyo, and Endless Puyo Puyo.

Single Puyo Puyo

In this game, the player takes on the role of Arle Nadja, a 16 year old female spellcaster that has the pleasure of foiling Satan's plans. Satan wishes to take over the world, and Arle stands in his way (as the games' series develops, the plots get even more twisted). Arle must first however battle her way through 12 opponents before facing Satan, and unlike Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, with the exception of Rulue and Minotauros, they are not under Satan's control. Once Arle has beaten Satan, the world is saved, so she can return home.

Double Puyo Puyo

In this mode, two players play against each other. In exactly the same fashion as before, by out-chaining one another, the player tries to fill up their opponent's grid. Many people complained that the rules of sending so much garbage blocks made games short-lived, no matter how many chains are sent. Therefore, in Puyo Puyo Tsu and onwards, Compile added the rule of Sousai, which enables players to counter opponents' attacks with chains of their own, sending any garbage blocks back to them as a result of overflow.

Characters

All the game's characters turned out to have fluent roles as the game series progresses.

Main characters

• Arle Nadja
• Carbuncle

Beginner levels

• Skeleton T
• Nasu Grave
• Mummy

Normal levels

• Draco Centauros
• Suketoudara
• Sukiyapodes

Difficult levels

• Harpy
• Sasoriman
• Panotty
• Zombie
• Witch

Final levels

• Zoh Daimaoh
• Schezo Wegey
• Minotauros
• Rulue
• Satan

Original version and ports

Puyo Puyo was originally released for the MSX2 in 1991. It was soon followed by a version for the Famicom Disk System called Puyo Puyo Disk Drive. A cartridge version for the Famicom was released later in 1993. All of these versions are mostly one-player games with an Endless mode and mission modes, in which the player must eliminate all Puyos from the game field by using limited pieces.

A year after the MSX2 version, SEGA released an arcade version, which heavily expanded the previous versions by including a one-player story mode and a competitive mode. Ports from the arcade version have been released for many different systems in Japan, including the Super Famicom, SEGA Mega Drive, PC-Engine, Game Gear and Game Boy.

In 1993, Puyo Puyo was released outside of Japan as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Gear, and Master System (the last of which released only in Europe and Brazil), and two years later as Kirby's Ghost Trap (European) and Kirby's Avalanche (North American) for the SNES.

The game was ported to Amiga by request of the Amiga Power magazine and was featured on a cover disk under the name Super Foul Egg. It was then ported to RISC OS on Acorn by Owain Cole (and featured on an Acorn User cover disk), and finally ported to Java.

The Mega Drive version was re-released for the Virtual Console in Japan on December 2, 2006.

External links

• Hardcore Gaming 101 - Puyo Puyo Details the entirety of the series and all of its spinoffs
• Puyo Puyo TV spots
• Puyo Puyo at the Killer List of Videogames

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