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Klax

February 1, 1990 · Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games

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.

Release date
February 1, 1990
Developer
Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games
Publisher
Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
Platforms
Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 7800, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari Lynx, Atari ST/STE, Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Atari 5200, DOS, Amiga, Family Computer, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, MSX
Genres
Puzzle, Strategy, Arcade
Main story
4.5 hours

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