Columns - Arcade - How to Play & Short Playthrough (System C Arcade SEGA) [4K60]

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Published on October 18, 2022 8:30:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpkWSlCIibk

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Columns (1989)

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Let's Play

Duration: 18:38

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Full gameplay longplay, playthrough walkthrough and guide to the original arcade version of the puzzle game columns. While many users will remember the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis and the other home ports more this arcade version, which did come out first. It features slightly better graphics and music over the Mega Drive which was nigh on arcade perfect in the first place. This shows a quick run on each of the three difficulties with the high levels offering a score bonus and starting out at a higher starting level. The game is endless until you fill the screen and the maximum score is 99,999,999. There's no ending so the game over screen is the same no matter what you do.

Whether you played Columns on Mega Drive, Mega CD, Master System or Game Gear if you owned a SEGA console in the 90s, you likely had a copy. Created by Jay Geertsen and released and ported to a selection home computer system, SEGA later bought the rights in full. Likely this was an attempt to cash in on the Tetris puzzle craze and to avoid the issues they faced with the Mega Drive version of Tetris, when Nintendo fought Atari in courts for control of the rights. Which ended with the Mega Drive version of Tetris being cancelled.

A very straightforward title, the aim is to create rows of gems either vertical, horizontal or diagonal of three or more to get them to break. Causing chains of gems gives you more points and the game gets faster and faster the longer you play. You will rarely get a magic gem that will destroy all the blocks of one colour on screen. Old school addictive arcade puzzle action, some will find it a little bit boring as there aren't any extra bells or whistles so to speak, but it remains an excellent title for Genre fans.

Time stamp and chapter details:
0:00 - Game Details, attract & How to Play
1:31 - Starting Level 0 Easy
10:39 - Starting Level 5 Medium
13:10 - Starting Level 10 Hard

Also known as: コラムス (Japan)

Year: 1990
Developer: Sega R&D 1
Publisher: SEGA
Genre: Puzzle
Players: 1 - 2
Version Shown: World PCB
Format: Arcade / アーケードゲーム

The original System C arcade version of Columns was only directly ported to the SEGA Saturn as part of the Columns Arcade Collection. The Mega Drive version was ported to Dreamcast via the Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 and is included on all the modern SEGA retro game collections like the Sega Genesis Classics / Sega Mega Drive Classics for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One and Series X.

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Outros included in this video, template from Panzoid by Magnus DZN, edited by Riven, outro music is Kawaii! by bad snacks.

Footage is captured from MAME 0.242. Upscaled to UHD 4K to improve the video bit rate, watch in HD or UHD for best video playback on YouTube.

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