Puyo Puyo (video Game) - Versions

Versions

The original MSX2 release was soon followed by a version for the Famicom Disk System (published by Tokuma Shoten) called Puyo Puyo Disk Drive. A cartridge version for the Famicom would be released by Tokuma Shoten later in 1993. All of these versions are mostly one-player games with an Endless mode and mission modes, in which the player must eliminate all Puyos from the game field by using limited pieces, although the Famicom version includes a 2-player competitive mode.

A year after the MSX2 version, Sega released an arcade version, which heavily expanded the previous versions by including a one-player story mode and a competitive mode. Ports from the arcade version have been released for many different systems, including Super Famicom, Sega Mega Drive, PC-Engine, Game Gear and Game Boy. However, most of these ports were only released in Japan. The Mega Drive version was a bestseller in Japan for 4 months. The Sega Mega Drive version was re-released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on December 2, 2006.,Coming To North America And Europe In Near Future. As Cost Of 900 Wii Points.

Before being branded as Puyo Pop internationally, the first game saw release outside Japan in 1993 as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for the Sega Mega Drive, Game Gear, and Master System (The SMS version was released in Europe and Brazil), and two years later as Kirby's Ghost Trap (European Super NES version) and Kirby's Avalanche (North American Super NES version).

The game was also ported to Amiga by request of Amiga Power magazine and was featured on a cover disk under the name Super Foul Egg. It was then ported to RISC OS on Acorn by Owain Cole (and featured on an Acorn User cover disk), and finally ported to Java. In late 1995 it was ported to the Apple IIGS by Bret Victor.

The N-Gage version of Puyo Puyo stories becomes different, however. The character's colour is different than the original. The stories about Arle save the world from Satan's grasp turn into a little girl (Arle's counterpart) that lost her way home. The characters are nameless and some opponents in some stages are replaced (though Schezo, Minotaurus, and Rulue don't appear in the N-gage version, they're replaced by the stronger version of Sukiyapodes and Harpy with different colours).

The game has been announced for the Wii's Japanese Virtual Console service for a Spring 2011 release, and will be the first Virtual Console title to feature WiFi support, allowing players to play each other online.

Even though the original game was never released outside of Japan, a fan-translated version of this game was released as a rom for the MAME emulator entitled "Puyo Puyo World".