Game:

Hebereke's Popoon (1993)

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Original Air Date: May 23rd, 2009

Also known as "That one Super Famicom puzzler where the computer doesn't want to lose for anything", it's more or less your standard falling-object puzzler but with the cute Hebereke crew and with minor tweaks to tried-and-true formulas so as to make the game "stand out". Like Columns, you match three items vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Unlike Columns, every move you make pretty much piles junk on your opponent, even a simple triple pair.

This game presents a frantic pace right out the gate and you can thwart an enemy attack rather easily so long as you match it with the specified color. The best way to win is by chaining with different color pairs to pull off a characters special attacks, which differs depending on the character. The idea is to move quickly, and this game makes that painfully clear.

The very first opponent in this game on default difficulty fights as hard as some of the end-game bosses I've seen in other puzzle games (If given a chance) and if you don't adapt quickly, you're toast. Aggression is the name of the game... well, it's not, but you get the idea. Anyway, this game ain't bad!

We also own the rarer PAL version of this game which is somewhat hard to come by complete (Hebereke's Popoon), where the dialogue and such was actually translated instead of removed. This game was never released in the U.S. and we picked it up from a collector in the U.K. who was holding on to his for over ten years. It's not particularly valuable, but some of the games I'm most curious to own are PAL titles that were released in Japan but not in the U.S. We'd make a video for it in action, but we don't have anything atm to play PAL SNES games. Enjoy.