15 Facts About Puyo Puyo

Puyo Puyo, previously known as Puyo Pop outside Japan, is a series of tile-matching video games created by Compile.

Puyo Puyo was created as a spin-off franchise to Mado Monogatari, a series of first-person dungeon crawler role-playing games by Compile from which the Puyo Puyo characters originated.

Generally, the objective of Puyo Puyo games is to defeat your opponent by causing the third column from the left of their side of the screen to become filled with Puyo.

Garbage Puyo are translucent pieces that disappear when Puyo are popped next to them.

Garbage Puyo are cached above the opponent's playing field, and do not fall until the attacker's chain concludes, and then the defender puts down a piece.

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Puyo Puyo 2 adds the ability to counter the opponent's chains; additionally, it changes the single-player gauntlet from a linear structure to a roulette-based structure that requires the player to pass certain score thresholds to advance.

Puyo Puyo Sun, released in 1996 for the Sega Titan Video arcade hardware, adds a "Sun Puyo" mechanic that allows the player to send extra garbage to opponents.

Puyo Puyo~n, released in 1999 for the Dreamcast, adds character-specific powers that assist the player in clearing Puyo.

Sonic Team's first Puyo Puyo game was Minna de Puyo Puyo for the Game Boy Advance, released in Japan in 2001 and elsewhere in 2002 as Puyo Pop.

Puyo Puyo 7, released in 2009, adds a third protagonist and includes a new "Transformation" gameplay system.

Puyo Puyo Chronicle was released on December 8,2016, in Japan for Nintendo 3DS, as part of the original Puyo Puyo game's 25th anniversary with no plans for localization, despite the demand for it.

Finally, the Mega Drive version of Puyo Puyo 2 was released, untranslated, on the Wii's Virtual Console as an import title and the arcade version of Puyo Puyo 2 is included in Sega 3D Classics Collection.

Free-to-play version, Puyo Puyo VS, was released for Microsoft Windows and focuses on multiplayer battles.

Puyo Puyo is playable via in-game arcade machines in Yakuza 6 and the PlayStation 4 version of Judgment.

Puyo Puyo was originally conceived by Compile employee and Sting Entertainment founder Kazunari Yonemitsu.