An Updated Re-release of the original System C-2 version under the SEGA AGES banner saw a western release for Nintendo Switch, released on March 28th 2019 in Japan and August 22nd internationally in addition to incorporating counter-clockwise rotation and the sequel's Double Rotation, it also featured the aforementioned English arcade version as an alternate play mode and online multiplayer. The Game Gear version, despite never leaving Japan, turns into the fully-translated Puzlow Kids in a "foreign" system, and the arcade version received an incredibly-obscure (to the point where its authenticity was occasionally questioned) English-language release in Europe. As mentioned above, this is the "first" game for all intents and purposes. Puyo Puyo (1992): Compile, with the help of Sega, retooled Puyo Puyo into a multiplayer Arcade Game.It is generally conflated with its identically-titled arcade successor (including in official materials) despite being a vastly different game. Puyo Puyo (1991): Primitive, primarily single-player version for the MSX2 and Famicom (in disk and cart form) with simple Endless and Puzzle modes, the latter serving as a predecessor to the Nazo Puyo series.How many other puzzle games can boast that they have held televised tournaments? Though the original MSX and Famicom Disk System Puyo Puyo games quietly came and went, the arcade version became a hit and its sequel became nothing short of a Japanese arcade phenomenon. To that end, Compile incorporated characters from Madou Monogatari 1-2-3, an earlier first-person RPG that sees Action Girl Arle Nadja battle a variety of colorful monsters. Puyo Puyo was created to counter the legions of aesthetically-bland Tetris imitators of the late '80s and very early '90s.
Despite its relative obscurity in the west, due in no small part to a history of not being localized, it is arguably one of the more influential puzzle series its competition-based gameplay and colorful stable of characters were groundbreaking in the early '90s and inspired a wide variety of competitors. The object of the game is to flood your opponent's board with Nuisance Puyo by making chains with several multi-colored Puyo, which explode when four of the same color are connected. Puyo Puyo, known as Puyo Pop in English for a number of years, is a series of competitive Falling Block puzzle games originally created by Compile as a Spin-Off series of Madou Monogatari, currently owned by Sega.