When did Meteos come out?

Meteos was released on 10 March 2005 for Nintendo DS.

Meteos (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Meteos

An evil planet named Meteo is sending storms of world-ending meteors across the galaxy, and only your puzzle skills can stop them. As blocks drop down on the lower screen, you must use the DS's stylus to match…

83 10 March 2005

What Meteos is

Meteos is a puzzle game developed by Q Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Bandai. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Meteos is a 2005 tile-matching video game developed by Q Entertainment and published by Bandai for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo released the game outside Japan. It was produced by Q Entertainment founder Tetsuya Mizuguchi and designed by Masahiro Sakurai. Meteos was inspired by the video game Missile Command (1980), the film The Matrix (1999) and the television series 24 (2001-2010).

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Meteos holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Meteos launched on 10 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5 and Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.

Cheats and codes

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