Plotting

a.k.a. Flipull

created and published by Taito in 1989, running on Arcade

type: puzzle
genre: Visual matching
perspective: side view
player options: single player, split-screen

languages: eng jpn

3.6/5

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Official description

A game of elimination demanding strategy in a series of carefully orchestrated moves.
It can be played by one or two players independently.
The object of the game is to systematically eliminate a formation of blocks by tossing their matching counterparts into them.
And all within a specified time limit. The controls include a joystick and button.
Using a joystick, the player moves his character up and down the formation until lined up with the matching block or string of blocks to be eliminated.
Then, with the press of a button, the block is tossed.
As the block enters the formation, it passes through and eliminates each of the matching blocks until reaching an unmatched block.
It then bounces the unmatched block into the players arms and replaces it in the formation.
The player, in possesion of the new and different block must now locate its matching counterparts.
The game continues as long as the player successfully eliminates enough blocks to qualify for the next stage.
The game ends when the player has exhausted all possible moves before qualifying.
Plotting is made up of 60 stages, each increasingly more puzzling.
Plotting features a Continue Play option for those players who are determined to complete its brain-teasing puzzle.