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Panel de Pon

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Panel de Pon
パネルでポン
Panel de Pon boxart.png
Boxart of the game.
Developer(s): Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s): Nintendo
Platform: Super Famicom
Category: Puzzle
Players: 1-2
Predecessor: BS Panel de Pon Event Version 1
Successor: Tetris Attack
Release dates
N. America: May 20, 2020 (Nintendo Switch Online)[1]
Japan: October 27, 1995
Europe: May 20, 2020 (Nintendo Switch Online)
Australia: May 20, 2020 (Nintendo Switch Online)
S. Korea: May 20, 2020 (Nintendo Switch Online)
Ratings
CERO: A (Virtual Console)
GRAC: All (Wii Virtual Console)
©1995 Nintendo

Panel de Pon is a Super Famicom game, which is part of the Panel de Pon series, itself part of the Puzzle League series.

Originally Panel de Pon was intended only for Japan, in the form of both a cartridge and a series of Satellaview broadcasts called BS Panel de Pon. However, at some point (2002 or earlier), it was also available overseas exclusively in authorised airlines for Nintendo Gateway System with no expiration date, though it is not known which countries' airlines offered it. The game was not translated.[2][3] In 2020, the game was released internationally for Nintendo Switch Online again with all the text in Japanese.

Blurb

Nintendo Switch Online

Match colorful panels to make them disappear in Panel de Pon,
a puzzle game originally released for the Super Famicom™
system in 1995. Though this title was never translated into
English, it may seem familiar! You play by swapping adjacent
grid panels horizontally. If you line up at least three identical
panels, horizontally or vertically, those panels will disappear!
The key is to swap panels while other panels are disappearing.
That's how you get Chain Reactions! Use techniques like that to
your advantage in order to earn the high score in Time Trial—or
to send Garbage Blocks at your opponent in VS mode!


Gameplay

The game is a puzzle game featuring "magical girl"/fairy characters, such as the protagonist Lip and her signature Lip's Stick (a flower-like staff). In this game very loosely inspired by the Tetris series and other puzzlers, players rearrange colored blocks to cause them to match and eliminate them from a playing field.

The original Panel de Pon was never released outside of Japan, however, overseas regions would receive the Yoshi series and Tetris series branded Tetris Attack. Exclusive to the Japanese Satellaview service, at one point players could download a rebranded version of Tetris Attack, known as Yoshi no Panepon BS Han (Yoshi's Panel de Pon Broadcasting Satellite Version).

On May 20, 2020; the original Panel de Pon was officially released worldwide for the first time, via Nintendo Switch Online. Ironically given the Mario-themed edits made for international release, this is the only authorized international release of the game since its initial release due to branding issues regarding the Tetris name.

BS Panel de Pon
BS パネルでポン,
パネルでポンイベントバージョン1,
パネルでポンイベントバージョン2
パネルでポンイベント'98
Panel de Pon Event 2.png
Title screen for Event Version 2.
Developer(s): Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s): Nintendo
Platform: Super Famicom
Category: Puzzle
Players: 1 (Event Version 1 & 2), 1-2 (Event Version '98)
Predecessor: N/A
Successor: Panel de Pon
Release dates
Japan: October 17, 1995-November 15, 1995 (Version 1)
January 12, 1996-February 15, 1996 (Version 2)
December 28, 1998 ('98)
©1995-1998 Nintendo

BS Panel de Pon

The BS Panel de Pon games were a series of Satellaview broadcasts for Panel de Pon. Distribution began slightly before the Japan cartridge release.

Gameplay

The series is similar to the base Panel de Pon game. There have been three versions of Panel de Pon distributed by Satellaview. These include Event Version 1, Event Version 2 and Event '98 Version.

  • Event Version 1 details are unknown other than a screenshot
  • Event Version 2 featured the following modes: Endless, Stage Clear, Event 2. The last in the list is a special timed mode against Sherbet, Seren and Cordelia
  • Event '98 Version includes a one player Stage Clear mode with five stages, and a two player mode with missing character backgrounds.

Attribution

  • StarDust19b5/Panel de Pon Wiki (collating the information), Wifi_h1024 (Twitter, 1, 2, 3, The Cutting Room Floor)

References

Puzzle League series logo
Main games
Other games