Pokémon Puzzle Challenge

Are you a Pokémon Puzzle freak? Now you can battle any time, anywhere. Perfect your skills even when you're on the move!

An Awesome Pokémon Challenge Awaits!Now you can take the same great puzzle action from Pokémon Puzzle League on the road! Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is an action-packed Pokémon game for Game Boy Color, starring your favorite new Pokémon from Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver!As you travel from one gym to another battling tough trainers, you can unlock secret Pokémon, hatch pre-evolved Pokémon from eggs and eventually crown yourself as the ultimate Pokémon Puzzle Challenge Master. There are tons of gameplay modes to explore, including an intense head-to-head mode which lets you battle a friend using the Game Link Cable.The basic challenge is to flip blocks to line up combinations of colored symbols. If you can line up three identical blocks, they'll disappear from the screen and you'll score points. Rack up big combos and Active Chains to dump garbage on your opponent, and you'll come out on top. Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is easy to learn, but totally tough to master!Do you have what it takes to defeat the Pokémon Puzzle Champion and unlock all of the hidden Pokémon?Here are descriptions of the various modes of play in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge:TrainingHaving trouble eliminating the Elite Four? Spend some time with Professor Elm in Training Mode to perfect your skills. This forgiving mode allows you to practice your Active Chains in slow motion, or if you prefer you can watch as a Puzzle Challenge master shows you how it's done.ChallengeThis is where the real action is! First you choose your difficulty, then you hit the road and challenge every Gym Leader you meet to a Pokémon Puzzle Challenge battle. If you perform certain tasks during the matches, you'll have the opportunity to capture new Pokémon from guest trainers in surprise battles. To reach the final Champion, you'll have to beat each and every trainer on the "Hard" difficulty level.MarathonIn this maddening mode of play, you get to choose the speed and difficulty level. The goal is to rack up as many points as possible before your stack of blocks reaches the top of the screen. The better you perform, the cooler the ending animation will be. If you're really good, you could last for hours!Time ZoneYou choose the difficulty level and speed, then Professor Elm starts the clock. In each game, you get a limited amount of time to score as many points as possible. If you do well, you'll get to enter your initials on the Best Scores list.Line ClearYou'll come face-to-face with seven different trainers in this challenge, and they all want to stop you in your tracks. If you can clear a specific number of lines before your stack of blocks reaches the top of the screen you'll get to progress to the next opponent.PuzzleUnlike the fast-paced action of the other modes, Puzzle Mode presents a stationary arrangement of blocks that you have to clear from the screen using a limited number of moves. The puzzles can get pretty hairy, but Professor Elm is usually kind enough to give you a few hints if you ask nicely.Garbage!The Garbage! Mode is very similar to Marathon Mode, but there is one major difference. You have to clear big piles of garbage blocks as they fall on your stack of blocks. For advanced players, this mode is a great way to sharpen those multiplayer skills.Two PlayersOnce you've perfected your technique, pull out the Game Link Cable and take on a friend who also owns Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. The intense multiplayer action in this game is something that you definitely don't want to miss.

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Pokémon Puzzle Challenge has been added as a Virtual Console game playable on a system in the Nintendo 3DS family. Now you can revisit one of the classic puzzle games of the Game Boy era. Look for Pokémon Puzzle Challenge in Nintendo eShop. The handheld puzzle game was launched simultaneously with Pokémon Puzzle League, delivering a swift one-two punch to Pokémon fans on the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color systems.

Take the fun of Pokémon Puzzle League on the road with Pokémon Puzzle Challenge for Game Boy Color. It's all the excitement of the N64 game shrunk down to size. The basics of the game remain the same-try to align three blocks of the same color to clear them from the game board. Get the blocks to drop so that they create more sets of three to perform combos for big points!

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge even has features its N64 counterpart doesn't have, including the ability to hatch Eggs, as well as compete against Gym Leaders. You can take on your friends via Game Link Cable, too.

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Journey to Johto for the ultimate puzzle challenge!

With the help of Chikorita, Pikachu™, Totodile, and other favorite Pokémon™, you will take on Johto Gym Leaders—like Jasmine, Pryce, and Falkner—on a quest to become the Pokémon Puzzle Champion. Use lightning-fast reflexes to form chains and combos that clear the block tower, attack opposing Pokémon, and bury them in a sea of garbage! Six puzzling modes to play! Test your scoring skills in Time Zone, clean up the mess in Garbage, and then face the eight Gym Leaders in the ultimate Challenge Mode. And with Puzzles, Line Clear, and Marathon Modes, you’ll be clearing blocks for hours on end!

This game is only playable in 2D.

Virtual Console™

This classic game is part of the Virtual Console service, which brings you great games created for consoles such as NES™, Super NES™ and Game Boy™ Advance. See more Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS.

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Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is a fast-paced puzzle game for Game Boy Color starring new Pokémon from Pokémon Gold and Silver. Pokémon Puzzle Challenge has earned an "E" (everyone) rating by the independent Entertainment Software Rating Board. Games rated "E" are suitable for persons age six or older.

The puzzle action in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is presented in a wide range of difficulty levels, which makes the game suitable for players of all ages. To help players learn the basics, a thorough in-game tutorial is available from Professor Elm in the Training Mode.

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge features an engrossing single-player adventure, plus a non-violent Two-Player Mode where two friends can compete against each other in an action-packed puzzle match. To participate in Two-Player Mode via the Game Link Cable, each player must have a Game Boy Color and a copy of Pokémon Puzzle Challenge.

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is available for a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of $29.95*.

*Although Nintendo of America, Inc. may sugest retail prices for products, the dealer is free to determine on its own the prices at which it will sell products.

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