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Preview  Denki Blocks
- By Dan Doll [Editor In Chief]



With Denki Blocks' release imminent, it's a perfect time to try to come to grips with the concept.

Players move colored pieces around a board. As levels progress, the boards are fitted with more, challenging obstacles.

The challenge is to move the colored pieces around the obstacles, connecting any pieces of similar color.

The catch is that when a player presses a direction, every piece on the board moves in unison. The difficulty comes in using the obstacles to stop pieces from moving, allowing the others to catch up.

If it sounds simple, it's not. Trying to connect two pieces using a wall and then getting that new, bigger piece around the wall to another of a similar color is never easy. Throw in another set of pieces of a different color and now it's twice as hard.

The graphics, as you might guess, are plain, but it's in the sheer challenge that this game earns its worth.

Denki Blocks will be released for Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance, but Majesco is promoting the following features only found in the Advance version:

· Better Graphics & Sound
· More Effects
· Up to four players can play on one GBA
· Up to three CPU opponents in Race and All Change
· Versus Modes feature statistics, results and a lively crowd
· One extra single and multiplayer mode
· 30 special puzzles with unusual features, eg: new blocks such as Painters and Jokers
· Complete everything to reveal sliding picture puzzles.
· Jessop The Wizard (acts as mentor and referee, guiding the player through choices and play, explaining the function of all options and overseeing the Versus Modes. Jessop the wizard shows special Denki Blocks! puzzles in action. He demonstrates to the player everything that needs to be known about Denki Blocks! - everything from how to play to how the special features work.
Extra!

So get those Advances ready, Denki Blocks is on the way.

- 6.1.2002





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Release Date: TBA

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