Puyo Puyo (American Genesis Release)

Puyo Puyo is a falling block puzzle game developed by Compileand published by Sega in 1992 for the Sega Genesis.

Single-player
Puyo Puyo focuses on competitive play, and thus replaces the Endless and Mission modes present in those games with Scenario. Scenario consists of a series of battles against AI opponents and includes Beginner mode, which gives the player three opponents unrelated to the main game, Normal mode, which features 13 characters, and Difficult mode, which automatically sends the player to the fourth battle of Normal.

The object of the game is to fill up the opponent's field by creating a combo of Puyopuyo clears (also known as a "chain"); this will result in Nuisance Puyopuyo being sent to the field of the opponent. As this game lacks the offset rule introduced in its immediate successor Puyo Puyo 2, the most optimal method of play is to make a five or six chain and wait out the opponent.

Multiplayer
The gameplay in multiplayer is identical to that of Scenario mode, except with a second player involved. The console versions include a handicap setting that, before each match, allows lesser-skilled players to be given an advantage or higher-skilled players to be given a disadvantage.

Scenario story and opponents
The Scenario mode features Silvana. She has learned a spell known as "Drop Pop", which converts four or more similarly-colored creatures into pure energy. She plans to use this spell to defeat Dark Prince, but must first battle twelve other opponents to protect her home from the Black Kingdom.

Beginner levels

 * Skeleton
 * Blue Ghost
 * Mummy

Normal levels

 * Dragon Woman
 * Goby Captain
 * Small Foot

Normal and Difficult levels

 * Dark Elf
 * Scorpion Man
 * Johnny
 * Zombie
 * Witch
 * Elephant Lord
 * Devious
 * Max Minotaur
 * Lulu
 * Dark Prince