Game

Klax

1990 · Arcade · BBC Microcomputer System · Atari 7800 · Commodore C64/128/MAX · ZX Spectrum · Atari Lynx · Puzzle · Strategy · Arcade

60IGDB player score
18 ratings

About this game

Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, to which the object of Columns is similar. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.

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Game facts

Release date

Feb 1, 1990

Developer

Atari Games, Tengen, Teque Software Development

Publisher

Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen

Platforms

Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 7800, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari Lynx, Atari ST/STE, Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Atari 5200

Genres

Puzzle, Strategy, Arcade

Themes

Action

Game modes

Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Perspective

Third person