Tetris Attack

Description

All is not well on Yoshi's Island! The devious king Bowser has cast a spell on the island's inhabitants, turning them into his mindless slaves. Only Yoshi has escaped its effects, and so he must set off to free his friends, and to defeat Bowser and break the spell.

Tetris Attack is a fact-paced action puzzler featuring the colorful cast of characters from Yoshi's Island. A stack of blocks continually rises from the bottom of the screen, and the player controls a cursor which can swap any two blocks horizontally. Make a row or column of three or more and they'll clear, potentially creating combos from new blocks falling to take their place. Combos will send large garbage blocks to your opponent, which must be eliminated by clearing a piece that is touching it, turning it into normal blocks.

The game offers a story mode against the computer, as well as a 2-player versus mode, an endless mode, a timed mode where a certain number of blocks must be cleared, and a puzzle mode where a set arrangement of blocks must be cleared in a specific number of moves. The game is based on the Japan-only title Panel de Pon.

Alternate Titles

• "Yoshi no Panepon" -- Japanese title
• "ヨッシーのパネポン" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Panel de Pon/Puzzle League games
• Tetris licensees
• Yoshi series

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User Reviews

OUCH!....My brain hurts....	SNES	DudeOfMonson (106)
Another successful variant on Tetris	SNES	Pixelspeech (903)
More addicting than Tetris!	Game Boy	Tom Jacob (7)

The Press Says

Total! (Germany)	Game Boy	Dec, 1996	1.25 out of 6	95
The Video Game Critic	SNES	Dec 21, 1999	A-	91
Electric Playground	Game Boy	Nov 12, 1996	9 out of 10	90
All Game Guide	SNES	2007		90
Portable Review	Game Boy	Oct 29, 2005	36 out of 40	90
Game Informer Magazine	SNES	Sep, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Nintendo Land	SNES	2003	86 out of 100	86
Total! (Germany)	SNES	Oct, 1996	1.75 out of 6	85
Game Zero	SNES	Sep, 1996	41.5 out of 50	83
GamePro (US)	Game Boy	Jan, 1997	4 out of 5	80

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Trivia

Tetris Attack was voted #96 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).