Comments on: A History of Matching tile Games: Am I Missing Something?

By: Helvetica

Helvetica — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:46:17 +0000

There’s also “Fortune Tiles” which isn’t free (unless you’re a member of certain boards). The game isn’t bad but using the “untimed” game you are only given a fraction of the levels possible. If you want to play all the levels, you can only get to those “missing” levels using Options..Replay Level.. then choosing one which doesn’t have any points (or not your name), but your can only play these in Timed mode and some are near on impossible.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:42:23 +0000

Don’t know that one, sorry.

By: jade

jade — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:03:16 +0000

I’ve been looking for an older shockwave game similar to noah’s ark, match pairs to clear the board. It was multi level,with differnt icons and colors. I used to enjoy this game, from about maybe 96′?
Does anyone else remember this game?

By: Jesper

Jesper — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:30:50 +0000

Nelson: According to my research, Magic Jewelry came out just before Columns (they are quite similar). An earlier version of the tree had “Magic Jewelry”/Columns to the left of Dr. Mario.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:14:16 +0000

I would say Bejeweled is a direct descendant (aka) of Columns (circa 1990s) – which arrived around the same time Dr. Mario.

By: Phayke

Phayke — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:13:29 +0000

Money Idol Exchanger (JP) (Money Puzzle Exchanger in the US) for the NeoGeo reminds me alot of an upside down puyo puyo, except you could also pick up any surface blocks and reorganize them, all blocks were given their own value, 1,5,10,50,100, and 500. And when you combined enough of a smaller type of block, it would transform into one block of the value above it. You might be interested in checking it out if you haven’t already seen it.

Here’s a link to an online review. http://darkscarfy.tripod.com/moneyidol/moneyidol.shtml

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:57:19 +0000

Ah yes, that was a long time ago!

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:37:03 +0000

Hi
You are the author of the program named “Lyapunovia” ?

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:17:19 +0000

Clicking on the image just makes it even less readable – it doesn’t present a larger version, just a crudely resized version. I am using Internet Explorer 6.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:45:29 +0000

I just released a new matching game called “Shell Whirl” where you match the item rotation not the item artwork. As far as I know this is a totally new game matching mechanic. (http://www.shellwhirl.com/)