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Category: Games
Sub-Category: Puzzle
Platform: MS DOS, OS X, Windows, Nintendo SNES/Game Boy, Sega Genesis/Saturn, PlayStation
License: Proprietary
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: BreakThru!
First release: 1994
BreakThru! – a tile-matching puzzle video game released for Windows and MS-DOS in 1994. It was created by Steve Fry for the Japanese company ZOO Corporation and published by Spectrum HoloByte for the North American market.
The game would later be re-released on a number of different platforms. In the same year, the game was ported for the Super NES and the original Game Boy. These two versions were developed by different companies and published by Spectrum HoloByte in North America. A year later, Shoeisha ported/published the game in Japan for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. A Sega Genesis version was released the following year via Sega Channel.
In the game, the player must move the cursor through a grid of different colored squares. All squares must be “removed”, and squares can only be removed if they are directly touching two or more squares of the same color. Once squares are removed, blocks shift downward and to the left or right to fill in the blanks. The game ends when either all blocks are removed or time has run out.
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