Free downloads of columns game

With practice you'll be ready to take on the ancients themselves. Welcome to the world of Columns, an arcade title that's now the first Tetris -style puzzler available for the Genesis. From the moment the first bewitching strains of music twine around your brain cells, you'll find this game is very hard to put down. As the game begins, sets of three jewels in vertical columns come drifting down from the top of the screen. Your task is to stack the jewels in such a way that they form horizontal, vertical, or diagonal rows of the same color.

As each column falls you can move it to the left or the right and change the order of the jewels in the column. ProTip: When a column appears that has two Jewels of the same color you should first check if you have a third jewel to match them and if not, quickly switch the similarly colored jewels to me top of the column so they're easily accessible for a match. Once a column lands you have two last chances to quickly change the order of the jewels. When you create a row of jewels of the same color, they vanish, you score points, and the other jewels in your stack shift and drop into the openings left by the vanished jewels.

Sometimes this creates a chain reaction of vanishing jewels. As you reach higher levels a set of Wild Card Tiles may appear. Quickly scan your screen to see which color jewel you have the most of. Guide the magic jewels to land on this color and ah the jewels of the color vanish from the screen! As more and more jewels drop you reach higher levels and the game becomes more difficult as the jewels drop faster and faster. Your game ends of the stack of jewels reaches the top of the screen. Columns also includes several different game options to make it even more entrancing.

In the Arcade Mode one or two players can go head-to-head or-play completely independently at easy, medium, or hard levels of play. The game tracks the number of jewels dropped, the point score, and the level reached -- so compete any which way you like. For a more strategic style of play try setting the game to Difficult and then pausing it as the columns appear on screen.

You can take your time deciding where to place the jewels, which makes for a different game. In the Original Mode which is easier than the Arcade Mode one or two players can compete head-to-head or try doubles, where players take turns placing the jewels. This mode also enables you to select difficulty, pick levels, and even create a time trial situation. There are also three different ancient melodies to lull you into the appropriate state of mind. It may take a while for Columns to reel you in.

There's much more to the game than initially meets the eye. Graphically the game is simple, but the sound and the playability are excellent. Check it out in the arcades and you'll see that Columns definitely stacks up! Columns, the latest of the dozens of Te-tris-inspired games, offers a few variations on the original.

True, it doesn't offer as many as Klax, another Tetris variant for the Genesis. But then, Klax might be a little too different for Tetris fans who can't buy the Soviet puzzle game for their Genesis systems and want the next best thing. Columns sticks much closer to the proven formula.

Colored objects gradually fall from the top of the screen, and you have to arrange them in patterns at the bottom of the screen to make them disappear. The longer you can keep the objects from piling up to the top of the screen, the longer the game lasts and the more points you score.

But unlike the variety of geometric shapes that descend in Tetris, the falling objects in Columns are all the same shape — vertical columns made of three colored blocks. You can't rotate these objects as you can in Tetris, but you can change the position of the colored blocks within each column. And unlike Tetris, your goal isn't to form unbroken horizontal rows across the bottom of the screen, but rather to form matching rows of colored blocks. When you line up three or more blocks of the same color vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, they disappear and you get points.

If any blocks are stacked atop the ones that disappeared, they'll fall downward to fill the gaps. Sometimes this triggers a chain reaction — new rows of matching blocks are formed, then disappear, thus causing more blocks to fall, and so forth. There's also a "wild card" column that eliminates all blocks of whatever color it lands on.

Basically, that's it. Columns does offer a few variations on the standard game, though. Two people can play simultaneously, and another mode lets you race against a timer while trying to uncover a flashing block buried beneath regular blocks at the bottom of the screen.

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