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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game Brixian, played with MAME 0.212. Final score: 273,700.

A couple of notes on the game, since there's very little info available online:
- It's a puzzle game based on the game Puzznic. Not just inspired by Puzznic, it wholesale lifts many level designs straight from Puzznic! You move a cursor around the screen, and press a button to pick up or put down colored blocks. You can drag colored blocks left and right, and when you bring 2 or more of a kind together they flash and disappear.
- For most puzzles, the key trick is planning out how to make groups of 3 (and being careful not to eliminate just 2 of the 3 blocks).
- You have several lives (5 in all), and lose one when you either run out of time, choose to retry a level, or the game notices you're stuck (only one block of a group left).
- On most levels, you face one of *two* possible layouts, chosen at random. (I'm not sure what random factor determines which one is chosen; maybe the number of seconds on the timer?)
- The time limit on some levels is quite harsh. This, combine w
- If you push button B, you can leave the "give up?" prompt up for an extended time, to buy yourself a little time.
- The game ends (credits roll) after 38 levels
- There's a glitch where if you're mashing START at the end of the credits, you can get sent to a 39th level which you play normally, followed by an unwinnable round 40 (a "kill screen")