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Aquarium

Aquarium is a Tetris variant puzzle arcade game released by Excellent System in 1996 in Japan only. Play consists of matching three fish shapes rows to make them disappear.

60 1 October 1995

Aquarium is an arcade developed by Excellent System, released 1 October 1995 on Arcade.

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What Aquarium is

Aquarium is an arcade game developed by Excellent System and released in 1995. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Aquarium is a Tetris variant puzzle arcade game released by Excellent System in 1996 in Japan only. Play consists of matching three fish shapes rows to make them disappear.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Aquarium holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Aquarium launched on 1 October 1995, within three weeks of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby and Wipeout. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby, Wipeout.

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When did Aquarium come out?
Aquarium was released on 1 October 1995 for Arcade.

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