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Klax

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…

1 February 1990

Klax is an arcade developed by Atari Games, released 1 February 1990 on Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine and Atari 7800.

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What Klax is

Klax is an arcade game developed by Atari Games and released in 1990. It is available on Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Atari 7800, Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Atari 5200, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

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When did Klax come out?
Klax was released on 1 February 1990 for Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Atari 7800, Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Atari 5200, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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