Klax

February 1, 1990 Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
Puzzle Strategy Arcade
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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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Release Date February 1, 1990
Developer Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games
Publisher Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Perspective Third person
Themes Action