Puzzle
System: NES
Release Date: 1990
Developer: Idea-Tek
Publisher: American Video Entertainment
Genre: Puzzle
The most innovative and complex title for a game in the world is Puzzle! Herein lies a bunch of sliding puzzles for you to finish. This is as completely unexciting as it sounds. You’re shown a picture and then the pieces are dropped in a random order for you to slide around. Complete the picture correctly and move on to the next level.
In a typical sliding puzzle, you’ll have a rectangle and one of the squares is missing. This is how you slide the pieces around. However, in Puzzle, you are given all the pieces of the rectangle and get an extra square or two off to the side. This is fine when you get two blank spaces, but later levels only give you one. You had better hope the piece in that corner is what goes in that corner, or else you can’t get it there.
You can press the B Button to challenge the computer to rock, paper, scissors. If you win, you can switch any two pieces. If you forget what the picture looked like, you can press the Select Button to get a look at the completed picture, but without most of the colors. It’s incredibly frustrating.
Graphics: 0.5
There are graphics. I guess.
Sound: 1.0
There are different songs in the levels… I think. They all sound similar, but not enjoyable.
Gameplay: 0.5
It’s sliding puzzles, but done incorrectly.
Difficulty: 1.0
The design of the game makes it incredibly annoying and unfair.
Fun Factor: 0.0
Not fun in the slightest.
Overall Rating: 0.6
Puzzle earns a D-. This is a garbage game. It makes sense it was unlicensed, because Nintendo probably balked at it.