Columns (video game)

Columns (pronounced Kolumns from the Latin columna for " pillars" ) is an arcade game that was developed by Sega and published in 1990. The game has similarities with Tetris. In Germany, the Sega Game Gear, comparable shipped with Nintendo's marketing of the Game Boy with Tetris, the standard version with Columns.

Game Description

As in Tetris is the pitch of a rectangle in which the player arranges various pieces. Likewise, this can throw through certain assignments tiles from the game. The game is ended if a stone touches the top edge of the rectangle.

There are differences in the functioning of tokens: This form neither various forms, nor can they be rotated by the player (in " Super Columns " for the Game Gear, however, is turning possible). Each of these series (English " Columns" ) has three blocks ( in the game each represented as a gem), which are selected on a random basis from six Different. By horizontal movement of the game pieces and changing the order of the individual blocks, the player must try to create at least three of the same blocks to remove them from the playing field any number.

Part of the appeal makes a combo system (comparable to the expiration of a chain reaction). By the removal of blocks, it is possible that other and move up again form a series of the same three blocks.

Ports

  • Sega Game Gear ( 1990)
  • Sega Master System (1990 )
  • Sega Mega Drive ( 1990)
  • MSX2 (1990, Telenet Japan)
  • PC Engine (1991 )
  • Sega Saturn (1997) in Columns Arcade Collection
  • PlayStation 2 ( 2003), SEGA Ages 2500 Vol 7
  • PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (2009) in SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection

Successor

  • Columns II - The Voyage Through Time ( Arcade, 1990)
  • Flash Columns ( Game Gear, 1995, included in the module " Sega Game Pack 4 in 1" )
  • Columns III - Revenge of Columns ( Arcade, 1993, Mega Drive, 1994)
  • Stack Columns ( Arcade, 1994 Saturn, 1997)
  • Super columns ( Game Gear, 1995)
  • Columns '97 ( Arcade, 1996 Saturn, 1997)
  • Hanagumi Taisen Columns - Sakura Wars ( Arcade, 1997 Saturn, 1997)
  • Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 ( Sega Dreamcast, 2000)
  • Columns Crown ( Game Boy Advance, 2002)
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