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Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles to be solved can test many problem solving skills including logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion.
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Puzzle Bobble
Puzzle Bobble (パズルボブル, Pazuru Boburu, also known as Bust-a-Move) is a 1994 arcade puzzle game (for 1 or 2 players) created by Taito Corporation. It is a simple game based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and...
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Tetris
Tetris (Russian: Те́трис) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He...
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Zoop
Zoop is a puzzle game developed by Hookstone Ltd, and published by Viacom New Media.
Some of its rules resemble those of Plotting (known in some territories as Flipull), but unlike Plotting, Zoop runs in real time.
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Dr. Mario
Dr. Mario (Dr. マリオ) is an arcade-style puzzle video game produced by Nintendo. It was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy in 1990. Its play mechanics are compared to Tetris. In this game, Dr. Mario throws vitamins...
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Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kuru Kuru Kururin (くるくるくるりん) is a puzzle video game developed by 8ing and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on 21 March 2001 and in Europe on 22 June, 2001.
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Lemmings
Lemmings ("レミングス) is a puzzle computer game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis in 1991. Originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time, and several...
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The Lost Vikings
The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game series which was developed by Blizzard Entertainment (then known as "Silicon & Synapse"). The first game, The Lost Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment....
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Jumpman
Jumpman is a platform game written by Randy Glover and released by Epyx in 1983. Originally developed for the Atari 400/800, versions were also released for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC.
The object of the game is to defuse all bombs in a...
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Yoshi's Cookie
Yoshi's Cookie (ヨッシーのクッキー, Yosshī no Kukkī) is a computer puzzle game made for the NES, Game Boy, SNES, and the Wii Virtual console.
Yoshi's Cookie is also a backdrop for Puzzle Mode in Tetris DS and a battle stage in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! ...
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- 1992
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Tetris Attack
Tetris Attack is a puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System home video game console and Game Boy handheld game console. It is part of the Puzzle League series and is a...
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- 1995
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Marble Madness
Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time...
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Ico
Ico (イコ, Iko, pronounced /ˈiːko/) is a 2001 action-adventure video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity is a computer game by Spectrum HoloByte, based on the Star Trek universe.
The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation reprise their roles, providing the voices of their respective characters.
While on...
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- 1994
Myst
Myst is a graphic adventure video game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. It was developed by Cyan Worlds, a Spokane, Washington-based studio, and published and distributed by Brøderbund. The Millers began working on Myst...
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Columns
Columns (also called Jewels) is a puzzle computer game, arcade game and console game with many similarities to Tetris. It was first created in 1989 by Jay Geertsen (not Geertson, as he is erroneously credited in the Windows port) of HP on the X...
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- Jun 30, 1990
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Bombuzal
Bombuzal is a computer puzzle game designed by Antony Crowther (credited as Ratt in the game) and David Bishop for Image Works. The game was released in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64. It was also released in 1989 for MS-DOS and 1990...
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- 1988
Oxyd
Oxyd is a computer puzzle game released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, PC, and the NeXT platform by Dongleware Verlags GmbH in 1990.
It is a game of puzzles and tests that challenge the player to restart all the oxygen generators (called Oxyds)...
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Wrecking Crew
Wrecking Crew (レッキングクルー) is a 1987 puzzle game for the Nintendo Entertainment System produced by Nintendo.
In Wrecking Crew, the player controls Mario and attempts to destroy all of a certain set of objects with a large hammer on each of 100 levels....
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- 1985
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Enigma
Enigma is a transport puzzle computer game based on Oxyd, and is released under the GPL. Enigma continues to be very popular as an open source multi-platform derivative of Oxyd now that Oxyd is no longer maintained. The open source Enigma has been...
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- May 25, 2007
Pingus
Pingus is a free computer game inspired by Lemmings and created by Ingo Ruhnke. It features penguins instead of lemmings. It has been reviewed favorably by CNN.com, about.com, Unix Review, and other publications.
Work on the game began in 1998. This...
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Puyo Puyo
Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ, Puyopuyo) is the inaugural game in the Puyo Puyo series originally released in 1991 by Compile for the MSX2. Since its creation, it uses characters from Madou Monogatari (魔導物語, Madō Monogatari). It was created by Masamitsu "Moo"...
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Snood
Snood is a puzzle video game created in 1996 by David M. Dobson. Today, versions exist for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, Palm OS, and other systems, including the TI-83 and TI-84 calculators.
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- 1996
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Tetris Worlds
Tetris Worlds is a version of the popular video game Tetris. It was originally released in 2001 for PC and the GBA. It later was released for the Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 in 2002. In 2003, an Xbox Live capable version was released for the...
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- Jun 5, 2002
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ChuChu Rocket!
ChuChu Rocket! (チューチューロケット!, ChūChū Roketto!) is a puzzle video game for Dreamcast developed by Sonic Team. The game was the first popular game with online mode support for any major video game console. The game was later given away free with every...
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Burgertime
BurgerTime (バーガータイム) is a 1982 arcade game created by Data East for its DECO Cassette System. The game's original title, Hamburger, was changed to BurgerTime before its introduction to the US. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over...
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- 1982
ZZT
ZZT is an ANSI character-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, of Epic Games (then Epic Megagames), who later designed Unreal. It remains one of the most popular DOS game creation systems. ZZT itself is not an acronym for anything;...
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- 1991
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Chip's Challenge
Chip's Challenge is a tile-based, puzzle video game for several systems, including the hand-held Atari Lynx, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows (included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack and Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack).It has also...
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Lines
Color Lines (aka Lines) is a computer puzzle game, invented by Oleg Demin and first introduced as a video game by the Russian company Gamos (Russian: Геймос) in 1992.
The game starts with a 9×9 board with three balls chosen out of seven different...
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- 1992
Wario's Woods
Wario's Woods (ワリオの森 Wario no Mori) is a puzzle game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES in 1994, and then later released on the Satellaview BS-X in 1997. The NES version was later re-released for Wii's Virtual...
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- 1994
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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is an adventure video game developed by Cyan Worlds and published by Ubisoft. Released in 2003, the title is the fourth game in the Myst canon. Departing from previous games of the franchise, Uru takes place in the modern era...
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Blast Corps
Blast Corps is a video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rare that was released in 1997, in which the player must destroy a series of buildings using a variety of unique demolition vehicles, in order to clear a path for a truck carrying a pair...
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Q*bert
Q*bert (pronounced /ˈkjuːbərt/) is an arcade video game developed and published by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a platform game that features two-dimensional (2D) graphics. The object is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by making the on...
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Collapse
Collapse! generally refers to a series of award-winning puzzle games by GameHouse, a software company in Seattle, Washington. In 2007, Collapse! 3 became the first game to win the Game of the Year at the inaugural Zeebys.
The classic Collapse! game...
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- 1999
The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest, first published in 1992 by Trilobyte and later released by Virgin Games in 1993, is a FMV-based puzzle video game, not unlike The Fool's Errand and predating Myst. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD...
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Yoshi
Yoshi, known as Yoshi's Egg (ヨッシーのたまご, Yosshī no Tamago) in Japan and Mario & Yoshi in Europe and Australia, is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy.
From March to July 2007, the NES version was released for the...
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Bridge Builder
Bridge Builder is a series of computer games developed and published by Chronic Logic. Bridge Builder is the first in the series, followed by Pontifex, Pontifex 2 (later renamed to Bridge Construction Set), and Bridge It. The object of each game is...
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Pokémon Channel
Pokémon Channel, released in Japan as Pokémon Channel ~Pikachu to Issho!~ (ポケモンチャンネル ～ピカチュウといっしょ!～, Pokémon Channeru ~Pikachū to Issho!~, lit. "Pokémon Channel ~Together With Pikachu!~") is a virtual pet video game for the GameCube, developed by...
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Altered Space
Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure is a video game produced for the Nintendo Game Boy. The basic concept is that the player is an astronaut trapped on an alien spaceship who has to try to find his way out while avoiding aliens and continually...
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Rampart
Rampart is an arcade game, released in 1990 by Atari Games, that combines the shoot 'em up and puzzle genres. It is one of the most widely-ported video games in existence, with versions for most contemporary systems.
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Mario's Super Picross
Mario's Super Picross (マリオのスーパーピクロス, Mario no Sūpā Pikurosu) is a Super Famicom sequel to Mario's Picross. It is erroneously named as Mario's Picross 2, which is actually the name of the Game Boy sequel to Mario's Picross. The game is compatible...
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- Sep 14, 1995
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Sonic Eraser
Sonic Eraser was a puzzle game that was available to owners of the Sega Meganet, a modem for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. While it is technically a title in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, other than his sprite, there is little that relates the game...
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- 1991
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Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984, is a classic series of computer games for the Atari 400/800, Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga...
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- 1984
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Bejeweled
Bejeweled is a puzzle game by PopCap Games, first developed for the browser in 2001. Two sequels to this game have been released, Bejeweled 2, by PopCap Games in 2004, and Bejeweled Twist, also by PopCap Games, in 2008. More than 25 million copies...
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Quarth
Quarth (クオース) is a hybrid puzzle game/shoot 'em up developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game, sold as Block Hole outside Japan. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX2 (with a built-in SCC...
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- 1989
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, known as Made in Wario (メイド イン ワリオ, Meido in Wario) in Japan and WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania in PAL territories, is a video game for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2003 and in North...
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Make Trax
Make Trax is an arcade game introduced by Williams in 1981. It is a maze-themed game which is similar to Pac-Man. It was released in Europe, Japan, and other Asian countries in the same year under the title Crush Roller and was licenced to Williams...
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- 1981
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Clu Clu Land
Clu Clu Land (クルクルランド, Kuru Kuru Rando) is an arcade and Nintendo Entertainment System game released in 1985 and was later released in North America on the Wii Virtual Console on September 1, 2008 and in Europe on March 6, 2009. The game was called...
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Intelligent Qube
Intelligent Qube (アイキュー, Aikyū) is a classic puzzle game for the PlayStation. It is known as Kurushi in Europe and Australia. In the game, the player controls a character who must run around a platform made of cubes, capturing certain cubes as they...
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The Fool's Errand
The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map. It is the tale of a wandering Fool who seeks his fortune in the Land of Tarot and braves the...
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- 1987
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Puyo Puyon
Puyo Puyo~n (ぷよぷよ〜ん, Puyopuyōn), also known as Puyo Puyo 4, is the fourth instalment of the Puyo Puyo puzzle game series, created by Sega and Compile for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color. Like many of the Puyo Puyo games,...
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- 1999
Pokémon Puzzle League
Pokémon Puzzle League is a puzzle game for the Nintendo 64 console. It is based on Nintendo's Panel de Pon puzzle games, but with Pokémon likenesses. This game was only available in North America starting in 2000, making it the first Pokémon game...
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- Sep 25, 2000
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Block Out
Blockout is a puzzle video game, created in 1989 by Polish developer - California Dreams, designed by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosław Zabłocki. All copyrights belong to California Dreams, represented by Lucian Wencel.
The game is the logical...
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- 1989
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Lode Runner
Lode Runner is a 1983 platform game, first published by Brøderbund. It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as...
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Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, also known as Dr. Robotnik and his mean bean machine in parts of Europe, is a Puyo Puyo game released for the Sega Mega Drive, Game Gear, and the Sega Master System. Set in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog...
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- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine ,
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- Nov 26, 1993
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Pengo
Pengo is an arcade game developed by Coreland and published by Sega in 1982. The player controls Pengo, a red penguin that resides in the Antarctic. The game takes place in an overhead maze made of ice blocks, where Pengo fights the patrolling, blob...
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- 1982
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Robot Odyssey
Robot Odyssey is an adventure game, published by The Learning Company in 1984. It was released for the Apple II, TRS-80 Color Computer, and DOS.
The player is readying himself for bed when, suddenly, he falls through the floor into an underground...
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