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IGDB / 4484

Klax

1990 60 / 100 Arcade Puzzle Strategy

Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, to which the object of Columns is similar. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.

World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayPuzzles Game modeMultiplayer

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Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, to which the object of Columns is similar. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.

GameplayPuzzles Game modeMultiplayer GenreArcade GenrePuzzle GenreStrategy ThemeAction
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Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games
Publisher
Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
Franchise
Standalone
02
So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Multiplayer, Single player, Split screen
Perspective
Third person
Themes
Action
03
Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Nintendo Entertainment System Jul 1990
  • Sega Master System/Mark III 1991
  • BBC Microcomputer System 1990
  • MSX 1990
  • Atari ST/STE 1990
  • Atari 5200 2003
  • ZX Spectrum 1990
  • TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine 1991
  • Family Computer Dec 14, 1990
  • Atari Lynx 1990
  • Amiga 1990
  • Arcade Feb 1990
  • Amstrad CPC 1990
  • Atari 7800 2002
  • Commodore C64/128/MAX 1990
  • DOS 1990

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