Puyo Puyo (video game)

Puyo Puyo
Front cover of the Mega Drive version featuring Arle, the protagonist of the game.
Developer(s)Compile
CRI Middleware
Lavastorm
Tokuma Shoten
Winkysoft
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Masanobu Tsukamoto (FC and 1992–1996 releases)
Producer(s)Masamitsu Niitani
Programmer(s)
  • Mitsugi Tanaka (MSX2, Famicom Disk System, Famicom)
  • K. Yoshinaka (Mega Drive)
  • Takayuki Hirono (Super Famicom)
  • Nattoh (Game Gear)
  • Shigemitsu Takamiya (Game Boy)
  • Masashi Katsuragi (CD-ROM²)
Composer(s)
  • Masanobu Tsukamoto
  • Akiyoshi Nagao
  • Toshiaki Sakoda (MSX2)
  • Masaaki Harada (MSX2, Famicom Disk System, Famicom)
  • Daisuke Fujimoto (Game Boy)
SeriesPuyo Puyo
Platform(s)
List
Release
October 25, 1991
  • MSX2, Famicom Disk System
    • JP: October 25, 1991
  • Arcade
  • Mega Drive
  • Game Gear, PC-98
    Family Computer
    • JP: July 23, 1993
  • Super Famicom
    • JP: December 10, 1993
  • FM Towns
    • JP: March 18, 1994
  • X68000
    • JP: March 25, 1994
  • CD-ROM²
    • JP: April 22, 1994
  • Game Boy
    • JP: July 31, 1994
  • Windows 3.1
    • JP: May 28, 1995
  • Windows 95
    • JP: August 2, 1996
  • Windows CE
    • JP: May 1, 1998
  • Macintosh
    • JP: December 28, 1996
  • Mobile phone
    • NA: June 13, 2003
  • Nintendo DS
    • JP: December 16, 2004
    • NA: February 4, 2005
    • WW: May 30, 2005
  • Wii Virtual Console
    • Mega Drive
      • JP: December 2, 2006
    • Arcade
      • JP: April 12, 2011
  • 3DS Virtual Console (Game Gear)
    • JP: January 30, 2013
  • Nintendo Switch
    • JP: March 28, 2019
    • WW: August 22, 2019
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ) is a puzzle video game released in 1991 by Compile for the MSX2.[4] Since its creation, it uses characters from Madō Monogatari. It was created by Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani, the founder of Compile, who was inspired by certain elements from the Tetris and Dr. Mario series of games.

The game was released by Tokuma Shoten on the same day of the MSX2 release under the name Famimaga Disk Vol. 5: Puyo Puyo (ファミマガディスク Vol.5 ぷよぷよ, Famimaga Disuku Boryūmu Faibu: Puyo Puyo) and as part of the Famimaga Disk series for the Family Computer Disk System. A year after the MSX2 and FDS versions, Sega released an arcade version, which heavily expanded the previous versions by including a one-player story mode and a two-player competitive mode.

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