Your All Time Favorite Puzzle Games?

[Quizzical Artisan]

Mine, in alphabetical order:

-Lode Runner
-Picross
-Puyo Puyo
-Puzzle League (a.k.a. Panel de Pon)
-Sokoban
-Tetris
-Zoop

[tom]

I reckon Lode Runner is more of a platform game than a puzzle

Here's a great puzzle game:
http://roomofdoom.powweb.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=195013&g2_serialNumber=1

Further good ones:
Dice Puzzle
Soko ban (yep great title)
Night Shift
Lights Out
Zoop (yes I like it too)

[Quizzical Artisan]

Lode Runner is categorized as an action-puzzle game on the packages.

In addition I could add Puzzle Bobble to the list.

[TurboGenesis]

some of the ones that have had me hooked…

Klax (Lynx, TG-16)
Lumines (PSP)
Tetris DS (NDS)
Tetris Attack (SNES)
Mr. Driller (NDS)
Meteos (NDS)
Columns (Genesis)
Ultimate Qix (Genesis)
Arkanoid (NES)

one thing I have learned that I enjoy puzzle game best on handhelds! I also have a few on my cellular phone:

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Star*Burst (it's basically upside-down Klax)

[Smashed Brother]

Some of my all-time favs:

Meteos (NDS)
The Next Tetris (PS1/DC) - prefer the PS1 version because of the faster frame rate and ability to listen to your own music!
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo/X (all versions are great)
Magical Drop 3 (Neo Geo)
Bust A Move 2 (PS1/Saturn, either or)
Tetris Attack (SNES)
Arkanoid (NES/Arcade)
Lumines Plus (PS2)
Chu Chu Rocket (DC) - I don't know if this counts or not...

[tom]

And of course, this classic:
http://roomofdoom.powweb.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=200341&g2_serialNumber=2

[Ro-J]

one thing I have learned that I enjoy puzzle game best on handhelds!

Agreed, and to that add Mole Mania (GB), it feels a lot like the Adventures of Lolo series which were fantastic puzzlers on the NES.

[lookfun78]

tetrisphere, and bejeweled 3.

[TurboGenesis]

Agreed, and to that add Mole Mania (GB), it feels a lot like the Adventures of Lolo series which were fantastic puzzlers on the NES.

Lolo are fine games indeed!

and though it may be more action/puzzle? I love Chew-Man-Fu on the Turbo Grafx 16!

[theichibun]

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo/X (all versions are great)

I came into this thread just to say this game. I've only played the PlayStation version but I love it.

It's actually been a bit of a problem lately because it's keeping me from my NES project.

[Wraith Storm]

Agreed, and to that add Mole Mania (GB), it feels a lot like the Adventures of Lolo series which were fantastic puzzlers on the NES.

Dude! That game looks awesome! I have never heard of it before, but I love the Lolo games and it does somewhat resemble them. I'm gonna have to track down a copy.


Lolo are fine games indeed!
and though it may be more action/puzzle? I love Chew-Man-Fu on the Turbo Grafx 16!

Chew-Man-Fu is fantastic, but it gets really tough in the later levels.

I'm gonna have to nominate Splash Lake on the Turbo Grafx CD. Its A really fun high score action puzzle game.

I also have to go with Kwirk on the Gameboy. It's an early Atlus game and you have to find your way to the exit by flipping Tetris like blocks. Its really simple and fun but the later levels make my brain hurt.

[Twin Paradox]

I would have to say Sutte Hakkun for super famicom. The style is completely unique and the level of challenge it perfect! The last 10 or 15 levels will drive you insane! Definitely one of the, if not THE, best puzzle games ever.

[RetroGamer1994]

Tetris on GB!

[Emperor Megas]

Bust A Move 2 (PS1/Saturn, either or)The Saturn version has Redbook audio, internal clock content and faster loading times. I'm just saying. :)

[namzep]

Can't believe no one's mentioned the Picross games. Picross DS is probably the best but Picross 3D is really good, as well. Mario's Picross (for the GB) was alright if a little hard to play due to the limited color pallet and small screen. I also agree with the Bust a Move people.

[Swamperon]

Hmmm...

Tetris of course. GB or DS versions are best.

Bust-A-Move is always a good shout. Especially 2.

I have a fondness for DR. Mean Bean Machine.

Boom Blox is awesome. The sequel not so much.

And the Professor Layton games of course!

[jammajup]

Puzznic (Arcade) and Kula World (Roll Away/ Kula Quest) on PS
Kula World-youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol1usmZs9r8)

[SpaceHarrier]

Super Puzzle Fighter II X
Tetris DS
Columns - Sega Classics Collection version

and uh.... umm?? (I don't play that many puzzle games)

Puchi Carat(???)
Sega Swirl(?????????????)

honestly, I haven't played that many.. not even Lumines!

[marvelus10]

maui kun for the Famicom

[kedawa]

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is probably my favourite, but I just can't compete with the folks who play on GGPO. I liked Baku Baku Animals as well, but I think SPF2T is just all around the better game.

Tetris is a long time favourite, too. I prefer the DS games or the TGM series, but I can play just about any version that doesn't have a bunch of gimmicky crap added to the gameplay.

Panel de Pon is just awesome, but I really only play that one mode where you get a certain number of moves to clear the board.

Bill's Tomato Game is a really fun physics based puzzle game for the Amiga that I feel is an overlooked gem.

Lemmings is pretty awesome, although I think it might be more strategy than puzzle.

I don't really consider Arkanoid or Puzzle Bobble to be pure puzzle games, but I do like both games and their many imitators, especially Puzzle de Pon and Shatter.

Buster Bros. is another game that I like but wouldn't classify as puzzle, although Capcom seems to disagree with me about that.

[Malon_Forever]

Soloman's Key and Tetris are my 2 favorites. I really like Wetrix too for some odd reason.

[The 1 2 P]

Most versions of Tetris but I'm also going to go outside the box and add Bust-A-Groove 1 and 2. I know they are dancing games but they are also rhythm puzzle games....kind of.

[Aussie2B]

I'm not that crazy about puzzle games (breaking the girls and puzzle games stereotype), but I do like how they're completely no-commitment games. They're nice when I'm sick, for some reason. I prefer the more reactionary ones over the slow, methodical ones where you gotta plan out what you're doing 10 moves in advance. I like Magical Drop, Panic Bomber, Puzzle Bobble, Puzzle Link, Taisen Puzzle Dama, etc.

[buzz_n64]

Tetris & Dr. Mario

[Smashed Brother]

The Saturn version has Redbook audio, internal clock content and faster loading times. I'm just saying. :)

Argh! I've owned both at one point or another and I never really noticed that! Interesting!

[slapdash]

I'll second Fool's Errand!

[hbkprm]

ill give it to columns cause it has a touch of class

[Steve W]

There was a Mac/PC game in the late '90s published by Global Star called Nahan that was essentially a truly three dimensional version of Mahjong. Great little game.

In no particular order:

Puyo Pop (multi)
Bust-A-Move (multi)
Ballistic (Nuon)
Flip-Out (Jaguar)
Solar Fox (Atari 2600 - more of an action puzzler)
Sticky Balls (Gizmondo)
Chip's Challenge (Atari Lynx)
Rampart (Genesis/Lynx)
Super Skweek (Lynx)
Tetris (multi)

[Emperor Megas]

I love puzzle games; it's one of my favorite genres. While most puzzlers are just variations of other more popular ones, there are a few that stand out to me. A few of my favorites are:

Bust-A-Move 2 (Saturn) - Bust-A-Move really needs to introduction at this point. The second installment is my favorite of the series. The formula is essentially the same in all B-A-M games, but I really love the music in part 2. Back in college I used to put the disc in the PC's CD drive in the computer lab and listen to the music from the game while I did everything but my school work.

Battle Balls (Arcade) - The only place I've ever seen this game was in an Arcade called Penny Land in the French Quarters that used to be our hang out in back in the day. My favorite thing about the game was the character animations in the background that changed depending on how well you were doing. It's pretty common now in Vs. puzzle games, but I hadn't seen it before then. It was really cool the way that the sphere's didn't 'stick', like most falling tiles puzzlers. They rolled and settled into place. It was pretty different at the time.

Fantavision (PS2) - The little celebrated PS2 launch puzzler where you set off fireworks across the night sky, and eventually into space and beyond. You try to chain together explosions for higher scores, and use strategy to figure out which you should set off first for the best possible results. The thing that I really like about the game the extremely quirky cut scenes, the serene music and background environments, and most importantly, the fact that the game has an actual ending. I love the simplicity of puzzle games, but when you make them have an achievable goal, it's that much better. You can get through a game in about 20 minutes or so, and while it's not a difficult romp by any stretch, you're not really guaranteed to make it through every time, which is a good thing.

Gal's Panic series (Arcade) - The Gal's Panic series is basically a Qix clone series that features sexy women hidden in the background of the playfield. You have to reveal as much of their silhouette as possible while avoiding the Qix-like enemy that roams the screen, and it's spawn. The original Gal's Panic featured poorly digitized girls, all Asian, and partially nude, rendered in 256 colours. The focus was to reveal as much of the current girl's silhouette, however there was meter at the top of the screen that would move to one side or another depending on which hidden -/+ icons you uncovered. If the meter went passed the halfway mark to the right, the background would change to a hideous horror themed one featuring the unlicensed use of a copyrighted character like Freddy Kruger, and Pinhead. If the horror stage was completed before the background was returned to normal, you had to restart the level again. The game also included unintentionally humorous Engrish text ("Plea circle my silhouette"). The most of the sequels featured hand drawn Anime girls (part 3 also featured 'real' digitized models), and more enemy and environmental diversity, and all of the installments rewarded you with a more titillating look at the current stage's girl if you managed to reveal a very high percentage of her silhouette.

Klax (Arcade) - Klax was a real oddity to me when I first saw it. The perspective of the playfield, unusual paddle that you could 'load' with surplus tiles, the fact that you could launch the tiles back onto the screen (something it took me months to realize!), it was all so different. But what really sold me on it were the background environments and video poker'esque look/feel of it that felt so familiar. It reminded me of the dimly lit bars and bowling alleys of the 70's. The sort of places that you'd find cocktail tables of games like Pac-Man and space invaders, with glass ashtrays occupying them. I think the programmers were shooting for it too. The way that people 'clap' pretentiously, and cheer in the background, like it's a casino event, or something played by gentry at an exclusive penthouse cocktail party.

Lumines: Puzzle Fusion (PSP) - This is another one that really needs no introduction. You basically arrange bi-chromatic, falling 4x4 tiles into solid coloured 4x4 squares (or larger). There's a vertical 'time line' that constantly sweeps across the screen from left to right, keeping time with the rhythm of the BGM, and it wipes out any solid coloured 4x4 squares, and other like coloured blocks touching them that expand the square/rectangle. With trippy, New Age music, and hip urban and futuristic visuals, the game is basically a feast for the senses. There was always an element of 'I wonder what the next stage will look/sound like?' that kept me playing and trying to get farther and improve my score. Everything about Lumines: Puzzle Fusion made it a show piece for the PSP platform, and sold me on the system. It was one of my first PSP titles, and it's still one of my favorites. I own the PS2 port, and the PSP sequel as well, but I've never played either of them yet.

Meteos (DS) - This was something of a flagship puzzler in the early years of the DS. You use the stylus to slide single coloured/textured tiles up or down in columns of multi-tiled stacks. This 'launches' the stacks into the air, and presumable off into space. The catch is that you need to match several more tiles to launch the larger stacks off, which offers a better reward. It was a simple concept, and really easy to pick up on. In fact, the concept was so simple that it lent itself to 'cheating'. Essentially, you could just abandon strategy and slide the stylus down across the screen, randomly, and chances are you'd launch something that you didn't even see. There was tons of extra content in the form of unlockables: stages, tile schemes, music, etc. There also an interesting (and cutesy) interplanetary space theme, and storyline, that added style factor of the game.

Money Puzzle Exchanger (Arcade) - My wife and I love this game; it's easily her most played MAME supported title. The premise, for those who've never played it, is to move your character among the bottom of the play field and grab stacks of coins from the columns above, and relocate them to other columns, stacking the coins with like values, which causes them to rank up in value to the next denomination of coin. There are pennies (1's), nickles (5's), dimes (10's), half dollars (50's), dollars (100's), 5 dollar (500's), and 10 dollar coins (1000's). If you stack, say, 5 pennies together, there's a reaction, and they rank up into a nickle. If you stack two nickles, they rank up to a dime, etc. (surplus coinage above what's needed to rank up disappears, so 8 pennies still only makes a nickle). The real fun comes in when you're trying to set up coins so that when you set off the lower denomination, it ranks up and does the same to the coins above it, and on and on. The money exchanges take a few seconds, and you're free to rearrange coins on the screen while they're adding up. The longer the chains you make, the higher the points and combo multiplier.

Pokémon Trozei! (DS) - This game doesn't seem as popular as I thought it would be when announced. You basically use the DS stylus to match 4 Pokémon, represented by facial icons, in a vertical or horizontal row on a grid-like playfield. It's a simple concept that might not be as enjoyable were it not for the familiarity of the Pokémon characters you match. Being as it does feature them, however, it has that signature 'collection' reward you get when you see which Pokémon characters you've captured so far, and the silhouettes of the ones featured which you haven't yet. Like most modern puzzlers, there's different modes of play, including story mode, endless, etc.. The story mode features a really unusual art style that I'm not particularly fond of and isn't characteristic of the series, but that's really the game's only downside (if you can even call it one).

Uo Poco (Arcade) - I'm not sure if this game was released outside of Japan; I've only played it on MAME. The premise is to use a pinball style plunger on the right of the screen to send coloured spheres into the playfield. The longer you hold the plunger down, the farther to the left the balls go. Also, you have only one shot per sphere because you can't release the pressure on the plunger. If you hold it for too long, you over shoot the place you want to the sphere to go for that turn. The coloured spheres 'settle' rather than stick, and you need to match clusters of three of more of the same colour to remove them from the field. The challenge of Uo Poco is that you have to gauge the distance your spheres are launched without the aid of a guide line (beyond the early stages). Once you clear a stage, you move on to another, which is represented by a submarine diving deeper into an undersea chasm. This undersea theme is reflected in the in-game background graphics, which are lively with exotic fish, coral, and other undersea fair. Every so often a little submarine will cruise across the top of the screen, not unlike the UFO in Space Invaders. If hit with a well timed sphere, the sub will pause and release a vertical beam that will remove all spheres in it's path. This helps out a lot.

When the game boots, there's a freaky broken English copyright warning about how "all violators who operate the game outside of Japan will be persecuted to the full extent of the jam", or something to that effect.

Another thing that stands out about Uo Poco is the striped, yellow mascot cat character (and a pink one for player two) on the side of the screen that animates as you play. He becomes excited if you advance, and worried if you do poorly. Eventually, when the spheres reach the top of the screen, the game is over and the cat dies a HORRIBLE drowning death, and his lifeless body slowly floats, eerily, to the surface of the screen, as the continue timer counts down to zero. It's actually pretty disturbing at first. :|

Shanghai Triple Treat (3DO) - Triple Threat is the only Shanghai game I play, and it's strictly for 'The Great Wall' falling tile mode. Like traditional Shanghai games, you have to click matching pairs of Mahjong tiles with your cursor to remove them from the screen. In 'The Great Wall' when you remove tiles, the tiles that were stacked above the ones removed drop and settle. You have to be careful or else you'll block yourself in and place the tiles in such a way that you can't make anymore moves. The fact that the rounds are timed adds to the difficulty. The traditional Chinese music is also nice, as is the map that appears between stages which shows your progress across the Great all of China. There are also customization touches, like the ability to select different types of tiles, and cursors (I like to play with traditional Mahjong tiles and the 'magic wand' cursor, myself).

Trip'D (3DO) - The wife and I love playing this competitively. It's one of the few games that she can hold her on with me in. It has a very good risk vs. reward dynamic where you'll find yourself not clearing out your screen like you probably should, because you're trying to 'birth' several aliens out of a groups of 4 like coloured alien eggs. When you birth aliens, they produce special results once you clear them away. The real test is trying to create a giant alien out of 4 smaller ones, for 4 times the effect...and bragging rights (it's not easy to do).

Zoo Keeper (DS) -This DS sleeper is FANTASTIC. While Meteos got tons of well deserved praised, Zoo Keeper slipped under the radar and remains relatively obscure by comparison. In Zoo Keeper you assume the role of a zoo keeper who for some reason or another appears to be in the employ of Adolf Hitler. You play by sliding tiles with animals icons on them up and down, and side to side, swapping them with the tiles next to them, or having them return to their original place if you don't match it with at least 2 other tiles of similar types, which if down, removes the group and introduces new tiles into the screen. It's a very simple concept, but it's so well executed and controls so well with the DS' touch screen controls that anyone can just pick it up and play. It's easily one of the best DS titles under $10, IMO.

[VintageNintendo]

I really enjoyed Tetris for gameboy (black and white style). When I was younger my mom was always threatening to throw that thing away. Many hours lost. Dr. Mario and Arkanoid were good also.

[kedawa]

One game that I forgot about is Roll Away, aka Kula World(E), Kula Quest(J).
It's a PS1 game where you control a beach ball that has to roll through a 3D maze.
It's really fun and there's a freeware remake for PC called Cubosphere that looks promising.

[NE146]

While not a pure puzzle game, I did dig Might and Magic Clash of Heroes on the DS.

It's akin to Puzzle Quest, but the gameplay is more related to a head-to-head "Columns" type game where you match 3 colors.. only this time it's with war units and they form attacks. It's a short game but I had a lot of fun with it. :)

http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2009/05/battle_1.bmp

[Wraith Storm]

I thought of a few more that got LOTS of playtime from me.

Baku Baku on the Saturn got pleanty of playtime back in the day. You had to match animal heads to their food. Simple, charming and loads of fun!

Sega Swirl. This free Dreamcast demo disc puzzler was played non-stop between my friends and I back in 1999-2000. Even my friends Mom got addicted to it and when it was all said and done she consistently held the high score and instead of competing with each other we pulled together and tried to knock her high score... I don't remember if we ever succeeded.

I also have a fondness for the original Game Gear Columns. It's my favorite version of the game. It has great music, graphics and just enough game play options to keep things entertaining.

[tom]

Catrap
Marios Picross
Daedalian Opus
all GB

[megasdkirby]

all GB

All GB?

[VACRMH]

I've totally fallen in love with Picross. I've got...6 games of it now?

Lode Runner is a guilty pleasure, guilty because I suck at it. And there's always Puzzle Fighter.

[tom]

Super Fighter Block Battle, great game
http://roomofdoom.powweb.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=305781&g2_serialNumber=2

[cynicalhat]

one of my favorite puzzle games was Intelligent Qube for the PS1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Qube

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

In no particular order:

Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo

Tetris DS (my absolute favorite version of Tetris with reglar GB Tetris running a close second)

Bust a Move (series/variations)

Zoo Keeper for DS is my favorite match-3/Bejeweled variant

[Koa Zo]

Battle Balls (Arcade)


Great mention on Battle Balls.
It is also on the Japanese Playstation as Mezase Senkyu Oh.


my suggestion for this thread is the great and little known GBA game: Guru Guru Logic Champ
If I'm not mistaken, it was the last game by Compile, of Zanac fame.

[Emperor Megas]

If I'm not mistaken, it was the last game by Compile, of Zanac fame.I just recently learned about that game. Whenever I think of COMPILE, I think of Golvellius: Valley of Doom.

[Rob2600]

Tetris (Game Boy)
Klax (Lynx)
Bust-a-Move '99 (N64)
Pokemon Puzzle League (N64)
Dr. Mario Online Rx (Wii)


Honorable mention:

Tetrisphere (N64)
Wetrix (N64)

[Drixxel]

Catrap
Marios Picross
Daedalian Opus
all GB

Awesome game and devilishly puzzling. My roommate blew an easy 45 minutes on an especially taxing level just the other day.

The Game Boy has been the go-to platform for good puzzlin' since the very beginning. Some other worthy ones on GB:

- Blodia (a blindspot to slider puzzles has this game proving too much for my simple mind)
- Dr. Mario (the limited colour really blows but otherwise it plays beautifully)
- Flipull (better on NES, but portability counts)
- Loopz (see above)
- Star Sweep
- Tetris Blast
- Yoshi's Cookie

...in my humble opinion, though, the very best are Columns (either the Genesis original or Crown on GBA) and Devil Dice/Bombastic. Devil Dice is just fantastic.

[MachineGex]

Here are some choices for the NES/PAL/Famicom, two of my all time favorites are Rodland and Don Doko Don:

Rodland for the NES and GameBoy.(PAL and Jap.) If you get the Jap. version(famicom), it is almost totally in english and about $150 cheaper than the PAL version. Plays like a cross between Bubble Bobble/Buster Bros.. You can make your own ladder appear to get away from the bad guys and to climb to higher levels. It is an excellent two player game, one of my favorites. Better than Bubble Bobble, a must own!

Don Doko Don for the Famicom(and TG16 & Arcade). It plays like a combination of Mr. Do's Castle and Bubble Bobble. Another great two player game and that is extremely fun. You play as two bearded dwarves who use mallets(big hammers) to smash enemies. Great game, a must own!

Door Door for the Famicom. Just got this little game and so far it's fun and it was cheap. Monsters chase you and you slam doors on them. Reminds me alittle like Mappy only slower.

Puzznic for NES. Fun game that uses gravity to help solve the puzzle. Plus it is cheap.

OK, I am gonna stretch my list to include a few games made by.......oh dear god...........SACHEN!!!
Actually, Sachen did make a few fun games and some worth owning. Here are the ones that are worth checking out: Happy Pairs(Shanghai type game), Magic Cubes (Like Junction on Genesis), Super Pang II (a two player Buster Bros. rip-off), Popo Team (Not sure how to explain this one, but it is fun), Jovial Race (Rally X rip-off).

I know the Sachen games are a stretch, but I believe a few coulda have been classics if they had the time to polish them up.

[dnehthend]

I just bought this the other day, it's pretty fun


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickle_Cubicle

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Kickle_Cubicle_cover.jpg/252px-Kickle_Cubicle_cover.jpg

[calistarwind]

Bust-A-Move, pretty much all of them...I really liked 4 though.
Devil Dice on PSX

[treismac]

Tetris (the official NES version as well as Tetris Battle Gaiden on the Super Famicom for my head-to-head Tetris fix)

Super Puyo Puyo 2 (Super Famicom)

Pipe Dreams (NES)

Kickle Cubicle (NES)

Kwirk/Puzzle Boy (Gameboy/PC Engine)

[Tron 2.0]

Puzzle Bobble 2
Magicial Drop 3
Money Puzzle Exchanger
Ghostlop
Dr.Robotnik Meanbean Machine

For any body that wounders what ghostlop is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZoDxs9fbg

[Natty Bumppo]

I have always been fond of the Boxxle (aka Soukoban) games. The Genesis version's title "Shove It!" has always appealed to my somewhat low sense of humor.

[Genesaturn]

Super Puzzle Fighter 2, Baku Baku (Saturn), Chu Chu Rocket(DC)

[A Black Falcon]

My favorites:
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (probably my favorite puzzle game; PC and DC/PSP versions each have plusses and minuses. PS1, SAT, and GBA versions aren't as good as the PC version. Haven't played the HD remake.)
Bust-A-Move (series in general, though BAM3/'99 is my favorite one.)
Magical Drop (3 is the best one)
Puzzle League/Panel de Pon (Pokemon Puzzle League and Planet Puzzle League each have plusses and minuses and are the best versions, though that Japan-only Nintendo Puzzle Collection Panel de Pon version of Pokemon Puzzle League might be pretty good too)

Also of note:
AstroPop
Meteos
Tetris (GB version, DX, The New Tetris for N64...)
Luxor/Zuma/Ballistix (I actually like Luxor the best, of these...)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Puzzle Quest Galactrix
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Puyo Puyo series (not sure which one's my favorite, and I haven't played any of the more recent Japan-only ones; of what I've played though, I think I like Puyo Pop Fever the most.)
Columns (not sure which one is the best... Super Columns for GG, maybe? Or maybe one of the Japan-only Saturn or Dreamcast ones?)


The Saturn version has Redbook audio, internal clock content and faster loading times. I'm just saying. :)

The Saturn version of BAM2 has more than that -- it also has a puzzle editor mode where you can make your own puzzles, something that's in BAM3/'99 but not in the other versions of BAM2, and also an entirely original Saturn-exclusive set of puzzles, meaning that there are twice as much main puzzle mode content in the Saturn version than in any other version. Yeah, best version for sure.

[RulerStabInTheEye27]

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[susonjoy]

I love to play the puzzle games because playing these kind of games, our mind become more sharper. The puzzle games which are my all time favorite are Night shift, Dice Puzzle, Dr. mario, Navigator etc. Today we see huge number of puzzle games available in the online. These games are really amazing.

[Crystalian]

I'm late to this party so I'll recap the best calls so far IMO and add a few.

Mario's Picross
Tetrisphere (incredible)
Puzznic (what I actually came here to post)
Fantavision
I.Q.
Kickle Cubicle
Zenses: Ocean for the DS (I'm not so partial to the rainforest one, but some might be...)
Zuma for PSP (I suck at any other incarnation, because a mouse screws me up and the PS3/2/1/Xbox analog sticks are too long for me to be as accurate with. If there was a way to put PSP nubs on a PS3 controller, I would destroy all on that game!!)
Arkanoid: D'oh It Again (and this was just on the under-appreciated two-player game thread, too!)
Point Blank DS
My wife likes Puzzle Quest and Puzzle de Harvest Moon quite a bit.
I'm sure I missed some gems, but that's about all I can think of now...

[Lerxstnj]

The Incredible Machine (PC and 3DO)

[thegamezmaster]

Any Tetris and The Adventures Of Lolo games.

[Collector_Gaming]

i'll go plain and lame and say DR. Mario. Use to play the shit out of that game when i was kid back in the day

[Zoe F]

Any Tetris and The Adventures Of Lolo games.

^ Those are mine also. I also get a lot of enjoyment out of Wario's Woods, but I know that a lot of people aren't fans of it.

[RJ]

Picross DS
Picross 3D (didn't see this Mentioned yet)
Aquia (one of many DS ArtStyle games)
Mr Driller (DSiware, game pisses me off but I've deleted & re-downloaded it twice)
Magnetica DS (the Mitchell Corp. ball-shooting game, I like all similar games Luxor, Zuma, etc)

There's a very under-the-radar PS1 game I always mention in puzzle threads, called Turnabout. You're given an enclosed game board w/ colored balls & obstacles, & can rotate the board to get the balls to touch & disappear. There's a simplified version on DS Zenses: Rainforest.

I'll have to check out Zenses Ocean & Zoo Keeper. I'm also a fan of handheld puzzlers. I was considering modding my SNES for Picross imports but decided against staring at theTV screen since some Picross puzzles take a long time.

[Captain_N77]

Panel de Pon/Puzzle League, Super Puzzle Fighter II, and Tetris DS for me. One of the first things I did with my 3DS was download the Puzzle League-lite game from the E-shop. I really should dust off Puzzle Fighter II and Tetris DS sometime soon.

Meteos was also a lot of fun. I always meant to give the Disney version a whirl too.

[SUPERSMASHSNAKE]

and man some of those puzzles are tough.

[Steven]

Saturn has a lot of good little known puzzlers. Seriously. Saturn gets love for SHMUPS and fighters, but needs more props for puzzle games

http://rvgfanatic.com/7506/933415.html

http://rvgfanatic.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_930915/IMG_9427.JPG

That's a review of the uber obscure WAKU WAKU MONSTER, one of the coolest puzzle games I've ever played. Other favorites include:

-Magical Drop III (goes without saying)
-Pastel Muses (Bust-A-Move on its side!)
-Coin Puzzle Moujiya (think Money Puzzle Exchanger)
-Hanagumi Taisen Columns (Columns with a battle mode and characters!)
-Chibi Maruko Chan No Taisen Pazurudama (better than the SNES version, too cute for words)

And of course, Puyo Puyo Sun. Although, to be honest, I really like Kirby's Avalanche and might prefer that version. I like how they keep it very basic and simple :)
The SNES has some good puzzle imports in its own right, but nothing matches the Sega Saturn in this genre IMHO. You also have the N64-looking game MONSTER SLIDER