If you’re looking for a freeware game as a compliment for your Mac OS X 10.3 system look no further. After an afternoon of messing around with Sega’s Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine on a mate’s Sony PS2, we decided to scour the Internet to see if there is a Mac OS X version of this popular game.
Flubopuyo is a Mac OS X incarnation of the popular Japanese puzzle game Puyo Puyo originally released in 1991 by Compile; from which Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine is derived from. The best bit, is it works and is GPL freeware courtesy of the folks from iOS Software.
“Two pieces, called Puyos in Compile’s implementations, fall from the top of the screen in a pair. The pair can be moved left and right and rotated into one of four configurations. The pair drops until one piece falls onto another piece or the bottom of the screen. The pair then breaks, so the other piece is free to fall until it falls onto another piece or the bottom of the screen.
The main game of Puyo Puyo is played against at least one opponent, computer or human. Whenever a player completes a chain or combo, garbage pieces are dropped onto all the other players; the larger the chain or combo, the more pieces are dropped. These garbage pieces cannot be formed into groups. The only way these pieces can be cleared is by clearing normal pieces next to them. A player wins when all the other players have lost.”*
lthough the graphics is hardly as stimulating as Sony PS2’s Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (Diagram 1.1), its an overall great effort, resulting in a wildly addictive game. Kudos to the folks at iOS Software for this offering.
Flubopuyo comes in versions that are compatible to the following systems:
Get yours today but beware – its wildly addictive despite its simple appearance!
