Your All Time Favorite Puzzle Games?

[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

[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.