Underplayed Gems

Nontan to Issho: Kuru-kuru Puzzle (1994)

Nontan to Issho: Kuru-kuru Puzzle cover
Developer
Tao Human Systems
Publisher
Victor Interactive Software
Platforms
Game Boy
Genres
Puzzle

How it feels

Stack and flip colorful blocks to match pairs in this Tetris-inspired puzzle game starring an adorable kitten.

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About

Nontan to Issho: Kuru Kuru Puzzle is a game based on a children’s anime and book series telling the story of a young kitten and his animal friends. It is a block puzzle game the likes of Tetris and Baku Baku Animal, where the goal is to stack blocks in a way that matching ones are connected and therefore disappear. Unlike in Tetris games though, the blocks cannot be rotated – they can instead be flipped around to reveal different blocks on the reverse side. There’s also the usual bonus blocks that remove entire rows, as is common in this genre. A two-player mode is also featured, even though unlike what usually happens in two-player gameplay of puzzle games, the actions of one player will not affect the other directly (like having more blocks falling on your opponent’s screen after you scored pretty high).

Screenshots

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