Puzzle & Logic
Games that ask you to stop, think, and think again. The quiet satisfaction of a solution clicked into place.
25 games in this room
▶ Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Lode Runner
ロードランナー
Lode Runner, released for the Famicom on July 20, 1984, was one of the first Western computer games to make the leap to …
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▶ Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Door Door
ドアドア
Door Door is a 1985 puzzle-action game developed by Koichi Nakamura and published by Enix as the company's first Famicom…
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▶ Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Wrecking Crew
レッキングクルー
Wrecking Crew reached Famicom shops on June 18, 1985, with music by Hirokazu Tanaka. The game is a hundred single-screen…
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Uncommon Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Championship Lode Runner
チャンピオンシップロードランナー
Championship Lode Runner, released in April 1985, is the expert-only sequel to Hudson Soft's Famicom Lode Runner — a dir…
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Uncommon Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Solomon's Key
ソロモンの鍵
Released in arcades and on Famicom in 1986, Solomon's Key is a puzzle-platformer designed by Michitaka Tsuruta at Tecmo …
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Uncommon Family Computer Disk System
Eggerland
エッガーランド
Eggerland (1987) is the Famicom Disk System title that introduced the world to Lolo and Lala — a pair of round character…
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Uncommon Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Tetris
テトリス
Bullet-Proof Software put Tetris in Japanese living rooms on December 22, 1988 — the first version of the game ever sold…
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▶ Game Boy
Tetris
テトリス
Tetris for Game Boy is a 1989 puzzle game developed by Nintendo R&D1, based on Alexey Pajitnov's original 1985 design. B…
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Game Boy
Dr. Mario
ドクターマリオ
Released simultaneously with the NES version on July 27, 1990, the Game Boy edition of Dr. Mario proved that the puzzle …
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Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Dr. Mario
ドクターマリオ
Dr. Mario, released simultaneously on Famicom and Game Boy in July 1990, challenges players to eliminate viruses by drop…
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Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Puyo Puyo
ぷよぷよ
Released for the Mega Drive on December 18, 1992, Puyo Puyo became one of Japan's most beloved and enduring puzzle games…
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Uncommon Family Computer Disk System
Clu Clu Land D
クルクルランド
Clu Clu Land D, released on April 28, 1992, is the Famicom Disk System-exclusive enhanced version of Nintendo's 1984 Clu…
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Game Boy
Kirby's Pinball Land
カービィのピンボール
Released in November 1993, Kirby's Pinball Land takes the most rule-bound game in the arcade — pinball — and quietly dis…
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Game Boy
Kirby's Block Ball
カービィのブロックボール
Kirby's Block Ball is a 1995 breakout-style action game developed by HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy, in which Kirby him…
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Panel de Pon
パネルでポン
Released in October 1995, Panel de Pon is a puzzle game from Intelligent Systems that tasks players with swapping adjace…
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Uncommon Game Boy
Mole Mania
モグラ～ニャ
Mole Mania went on sale in Japan on July 21, 1996. Super Mario 64 had been out for twenty-eight days. Twenty-five days l…
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Game Boy
Game & Watch Gallery
ゲームボーイギャラリー
Game & Watch Gallery, released in Japan in February 1997, brought Gunpei Yokoi's original hand-held Game & Watch titles …
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I.Q.: Intelligent Qube
アイキュー インテリジェント キューブ
On the night of April 9, 1995, Masahiko Sato looked out of his window at the sky, and the idea arrived. He had spent sev…
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Uncommon Game Boy
Kirby's Star Stacker
カービィのきらきらきっず
Released in January 1997, Kirby's Star Stacker arrived as HAL Laboratory's first puzzle game built on an entirely origin…
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Game Boy Color
Pokémon Trading Card Game
ポケモンカードGB
Pokémon Trading Card Game (1998) for Game Boy Color is a digital adaptation of the Pokémon TCG developed by Hudson Soft …
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Game Boy Color
Tetris DX
テトリスDX
Tetris DX (1998) is the definitive portable edition of Tetris for its era — a full-color reimagining of the 1989 Game Bo…
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Game Boy Color
Pokémon Pinball
ポケモンピンボール
Released in 1999, Pokémon Pinball is one of the most successful genre spinoffs in the Pokémon franchise — a pinball game…
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Uncommon Dreamcast
ChuChu Rocket!
チューチューロケット！
Released in Japan on November 11, 1999, ChuChu Rocket! was developed by Sonic Team as a direct test of the Dreamcast's o…
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Game Boy Color
Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
ポケモンでパネポン
Developed by Intelligent Systems and released in September 2000, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge brings the Panel de Pon puzzle…
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▶ Nintendo GameCube
Super Monkey Ball
スーパーモンキーボール
Released as a GameCube launch title in 2001, Super Monkey Ball challenged players to tilt an entire world around a monke…
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