Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is a version of Puyo Puyo with a storyline involving characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog games. The evil Dr. Robotnik decides to turn the citizens of Beanville into robots. It's up to the player to save them from their doom. The player drops pairs of beans into the dungeons, trying to create groups of four in matching colors. He or she must challenge Dr. Robotnik's robots to a battle and defeat them, and eventually face the Eggman himself.

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Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Genesis Tutorial

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Genesis Main menu

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Genesis The right screen if your computer opponent, who will throw onto your screen gray "refugee" beans from time to time. Such beans can't be grouped, unlike the colored ones, and make the game more difficult than a usual Tetris

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine SEGA Master System High score list

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Alternate Titles

"Dr. Robotnik and his Mean Bean Machine" -- French Genesis title
"동글이 퇴치작전 (뿌요뿌요)" -- Korean spelling

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The Video Game Critic	Genesis	Oct 19, 1999	A-	91
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	SEGA Master System	Jun, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Power Sonic	SEGA Master System	Apr 05, 2010	9 out of 10	90
Retro Archives	Genesis	Feb 15, 2019	18 out of 20	90
Joypad	SEGA Master System	Feb, 1994	87 out of 100	87
Play Time	SEGA Master System	Aug, 1994	83 out of 100	83
Jeuxvideo.com	Genesis	Jan 21, 2011	15 out of 20	75
Defunct Games	Game Gear	Apr 10, 2005	74 out of 100	74
SuperGamePower	SEGA Master System	Dec, 1994	3 out of 5	60
Nintendo Life	Wii	Dec 12, 2006		60

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Trivia

Development

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is actually a conversion by Compile of their game Puyo Puyo for the U.S. market. In 1995 there was also a Puyo Puyo conversion released for the SNES called Kirby's Avalanche.

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