History
Puyo Puyo Tsu was originally developed by Compile and released by Sega for arcades in 1994, and became the biggest arcade game to have been played in Japan since the arrival of Street Fighter II. The success of the game prompted Compile to port the game to several consoles and computers, including the Super Famicom, Sega Mega Drive, PC Engine CD, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PC under Windows 95, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket Color, PlayStation 2, et al. The Game Boy Advance and N-Gage games Puyo Pop are also heavily based on this particular installment of the series.
The Super Famicom version (Super Puyo Puyo Tsu) sold around 10,000 units in the first week of release, even though it was later than that of the Mega Drive version. This was because it added a 4-player mode - Compile's first attempt at such a mode for a domestic console - with the use of a multitap. Without a multitap, 3 and 4 MAN players cannot be played. Months later, Compile released Super Puyo Puyo Tsu Remix, a special version of the Super Famicom game that allowed up to 4 players to play without the need of the multitap, by replacing the human players with computer ones. Super Puyo Puyo Tsu Remix also included the Extended Training and Special Modes, as well as other features. Another case are the PC-Engine CD, Saturn and PlayStation versions, which add voice-overs and cutscenes.
The PC version of Puyo Puyo Tsu was the only version to include a separate Nazo Puyo quest, as the CD versions (more notably, Puyo Puyo Tsu CD for the NEC PC Engine CD) had a "cut-down" version included into them.
To show the success of Puyo Puyo Tsu, in the Sega Ages 2500 series for the PlayStation 2, Sega released a version entitled Puyo Puyo Tsu PERFECT SET, which paid tribute to one of the most popular versions, the Sega Saturn version.
The balanced gameplay introduced by Tsu has continued to be available in nearly every game following it as a "classic" mode, and still remains to be a firm favourite among many Puyo players, fans, experts, and champions today.
Only one version of Puyo Puyo Tsu was internationally released, and that was Puyo Pop for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which was the first Puyo Puyo game to use the international title of Puyo Pop, but the third Western release after Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Avalanche. Like some other Neo Geo Pocket Color games, the Japanese version of the game feature options in English, since the console is set for that language.
The Sega Mega Drive version was released on the Wii's Virtual Console download service in Japan on April 24, 2007. It was released in North America on the Virtual Console on March 10, 2008, and in Europe and Australia on May 9, 2008 at the cost of 900 Wii Points. This became the first Puyo game to retain the original Puyo Puyo name released in the West commercially, and remains unchanged from the Japanese version.
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