Puyo Puyo

a.k.a. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine / ぷよぷよ

published by Sega in 1993-03-19, developed by Compile, running on Game Gear

type: puzzle
genre: Falling blocks, Visual matching
series: Puyo Puyo, Sonic the Hedgehog
perspective: side view
player options: single player, cable/nullmodem

languages: eng jpn

4.3/5

Official description

Look, it was the 90s, and matching contortionist strings of goo-beans was just something that we did back then. It’s hard to explain if you weren’t there, but this game is a window into the culture of my people.

Oh! Also it is basically a Puyo Puyo game, which is to say exactly a Puyo Puyo game, but remade with a Sonic theme, because again, it was the 90s, and that’s how we rolled.

One neat thing about the Game Gear versions of Genesis titles is they often had something unique going for them – in this case, a "Puzzle Mode" that didn’t appear in its 16-bit cousin. Nineties! Yeah!