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 chip), Nintendo Entertainment System, and Game Boy—home releases used the Quarth name worldwide (with the exception of the Game Boy Color release on the European Konami GB Collection Vol.4, where the game...
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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 chip), Nintendo Entertainment System, and Game Boy—home releases used the Quarth name worldwide (with the exception of the Game Boy Color release on the European Konami GB Collection Vol.4, where the game was renamed to the generic title Block Game for unknown reasons). In 2005 Konami also included the game in the Nintendo DS title Ganbare Goemon: Tōkai Dōchū Ōedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki.
Quarth was released on the Konami Net i-mode service as Block Quarth, with an updated Block Quarth DX in 2001—this was released in 2005 on O2's i-mode services in the British Isles minus the "DX" suffix.
Quarth is a combination of Tetris-style gameplay and a fixed shooter in the Space Invaders tradition. The player's focus is on falling blocks, and the action...
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