Klax

First released on 1 February, 1990 for Arcade

About

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.

Platforms

Arcade, Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128, MSX, PC DOS, Atari Lynx, Atari 2600, Game Boy Color, Atari 7800, Atari 5200

Modes

Single-player, Multi-player, Split screen

Player perspectives

Third person

Engines

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Makers

Midway Games West Inc.

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Tengen

Tengen was a subdivision of Atari that made unlicensed ports of games for the NES

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Square Enix Europe

Domark was a British software publisher founded in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. In 1995, Domark merged with a few other companies to form Eidos Interactive, which now holds the brand as well as all the assets of Domark Software.

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