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Columns (1989)

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Back in the early 16-bit era Sega was in a bit of a pickle as far as offering a well-rounded game library. If you were a sports or arcade game fan then, yeah, Sega had you covered with quite a few titles that the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) simply could not do properly (though in many cases, Tengen tried). Much of anything outside of those two categories, though, and you were kind of screwed on entertainment options on the Genesis platform. Sega did do their best to remedy this situation, they even got, what they thought was a legal version, of Tetris that was later recalled as they held a contract with a company that didn’t have the rights to license to console manufacturers- they were only allowed to license to arcades or computer platforms. Other puzzle games that saw release in the early days were kind of weird and off the wall, not very intuitive for gamers to simply pick up and play such as Junction (though it was quite similar to the old dots game we all played, the digital game was “off”). Then Sega came across this little title called Columns, which was developed the year prior and was seeing quite a bit of success on computers such as the Atari ST. Yes, folks, Columns is not a homegrown Sega classic, they bought the rights to it and took it in house after that- the good old Microsoft mantra at work...

To read more about Columns on the Sega Genesis please visit our website:

http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2015/06/28/segas-answer-to-tetris-columns-hit-sega-genesis-25-years-ago-today-in-history-june-29th-1990/

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