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Before there ever were video games (as we would recognise them) there were Jigsaw Puzzle s and the Rubik's Cube , today's puzzle game forefathers. The genre can be difficult to describe: the gameplay is usually abstract (but not always) often involving arranging geometric shapes to fulfill some goal or constraint. Often edge matching or colour matching plays an important role. Puzzle games usually strive to have a pick-up-and-play accessibility to them and to have an addictive quality. Some puzzle games feed the player a random assortment of blocks or pieces that they must organize in the correct manner ( Tetris , Lumines ), where others present a preset game board and/or pieces and challenge the player to solve the puzzle by achieving a goal ( Bomberman , The Incredible Machine ). Some of the games in the former category have a mode that plays like the latter. For example, in both Tetrisphere and Tetris Attack , there is an actual "puzzle mode" in which the player must clear a pre-defined board within a certain amount of moves. Some games are not advertised as puzzle games, yet contain many puzzle elements, such as the Resident Evil series. Puzzle games are relatively easy to develop and to take from dedicated Arcade Units , to home Video Game Console s, to Personal Digital Assistant s and Mobile Phone s. TETRIS Tetris is widely regarded as the pinnacle of this genre, despite not having any real advertising nor a cute character to garner attention. Solitaire and Minesweeper are worth mentioning because of the huge installed user base (they come bundled with the Microsoft Windows Operating System ). Tetris is also believed to have spawned the ''versus-puzzle'' genre. The screen is typically split vertically in two separate playarea's, and two (or sometimes more) players compete against each other. When one player performs a well-played move or a chain or combo, the other player is obstructed with extra blocks or blockades. Good examples are Puyo Puyo , Puzzle Bobble or Tetris Attack . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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