Meteos

Meteos (メテオス, Meteosu?) is an action puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS portable gaming system. The name of the game comes from the English word meteor, transliterated to "meteo". The game was developed by Q Entertainment and published by Nintendo and Bandai. The game's producer was Tetsuya Mizuguchi and game designer, Masahiro Sakurai. It was released in Japan on March 10, 2005. The North American release date was June 27, 2005 (see 2005 in video gaming). Meteos was very well received upon its release. Meteos is often compared to Lumines, a game for PlayStation Portable by the same developer, which also features falling blocks. In general, Meteos relies heavily on speed and reflexes, while Lumines relies heavily on rhythm and concentration.