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Magic Jewelry II has the exact same game mechanics as Columns. The rules are identical: vertical columns of three colored jewels fall down the well, and you can shuffle the order of the colors with the A and B buttons. Match three jewels of the same color and they’ll disappear. The animated background shows a … Continue reading “Magic Jewelry II”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Falling block puzzle
Blocks of varying colors drop into the well and you have to arrange them to match three of the same color. If you clear at least two sets in a combo, a little goblin will appear for a limited time. Land a block of the same color on it’s head and you’ll squash it gaining … Continue reading “Magic Cube”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Falling block puzzle
This was another game that was part of the Caltron 6 in 1 cartridge but got a separate release. Magic Carpet 1001 is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up where you play as none other than Aladdin himself. The princess of Baghdad has been captured by an outer space devil tribe so Aladdin sets out on … Continue reading “Magic Carpet 1001”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
This puzzler plays like a cross between one of those annoying sliding puzzle games and Pipe Dream. There’s a small green ball travelling across a path, and you have to make sure it crosses every section of that path to clear the level. The problem is, the path’s split up into smaller squares and you’re … Continue reading “Magic Block”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Puzzle elements
This is an extremely basic slot machine game where you essentially have infinite money. Pressing the A button at any time adds 1000 coins to your account. As you earn certain numbers of coins you’ll be shown images of women in progressively fewer items of clothing.
Year: 1989
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Casino / gambling
You play as a top spy Captain Red-Hat Jack and your mission is to infiltrate the enemy’s Defense Information Center and steal it’s top secret plans. To do that you have to do two things: make your way through a maze of rooms while avoiding the gunfire from enemy agents, then when you reach the … Continue reading “Locksmith”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform, Puzzle elements
Little Red wants to get to Grandma’s house but there are mean creatures in the forest. Help guide Little Red to her Grandma. Little Red Hood is loosely based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Walk Red around the screen until a random staircase appears. Walk onto this staircase to enter the area where … Continue reading “Little Red Hood”
Year: 1989
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Krazy Kreatures is an action strategy game for one or two players. Critters of all sorts will fill up the game board and you need to move them around to line up creatures of the same type before the entire board becomes filled. Depending on the type of creature, you will need to line up … Continue reading “Krazy Kreatures”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Puzzle elements
An action/puzzle game, the object is to catch assorted color falling tiles and create rows, columns, or diagonals of a single color. Each level requires a different pattern to be made, and the tiles fall faster, more at a time, and in an increasing number of colors as the game progresses.
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Genesis, Lynx, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, SAM Coupé, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Puzzle elements
This cartridge contains three adventures. Your life meter is displayed as scrolls and when you are hit, you lose a half a scroll. When all the scrolls are gone, your game is over. You can collect additional scrolls in the game but to get the scroll, you will need to correctly answer a Biblical question. … Continue reading “King of Kings: The Early Years”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Educational
Theme: Platform