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Brain Drain

Brain Drain is a puzzle game in which the player has to recreate a pattern, consisting of different symbols like apples or hearts, which is shown in the corner of the screen. The main playing field consists of…

1 April 1998

Brain Drain is a puzzle, released 1 April 1998 on Game Boy.

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What Brain Drain is

Brain Drain was released in 1998. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on Game Boy only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Brain Drain is a puzzle game in which the player has to recreate a pattern, consisting of different symbols like apples or hearts, which is shown in the corner of the screen. The main playing field consists of said symbols, but randomly switched around. The player controls a frame which encloses four of the symbols. When pressing a button, the symbols are rotated clockwise around the frame. Of course the levels have to be solved within a time limit. In the higher difficulty levels, the player also has to deal with so-called special effects which occasionally kick in during play, e.g. some symbols get hidden by "?" blocks, symbols rotate on their own or the controls are reversed. Three…
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Brain Drain come out?
Brain Drain was released on 1 April 1998 for Game Boy.

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