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Ranma 1/2 Ougijaanken

Ranma 1/2 Ougijaanken
  • System: Super Famicom
  • Company:
    • Rumic Soft
  • Release Date: 1995
  • Genre:
    • Puzzle
    Controls
  • A button: Rotate
  • B button: Rotate
  • X button: Rotate
  • Y button: Rotate
  • L button: [not used?]
  • R button: [not used?]
  • Start: [not used?]
  • Select: [not used?]
This is a unique Tetris-type game that bases matches on the game Rock, Paper, Scissors. You get to choose a character to play in story mode or VS mode. Various three block rows slowly fall from the top of the screen. Each block is either a stone (purple or green), a scissors symbol, a paper symbol, and a rock symbol. To remove items, you must match blocks that would win a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors. For example, placing a paper symbol on top of a rock symbol removes the rock symbol and any other rock symbols directly below that one. Why? Because paper covers rock.

The purple and green stones can be removed as well, but I am not sure of the mechanics that determine how. Also, if you remove enough items at one time, you can unleash a Special Attack (e.g., Ranma's Tenshin Amaguriken) on your opponent. This will cause many blocks to fall into your opponent's area; the stronger the attack, the more blocks that fall down on your opponent. Of course, your opponent can do the same to you. I have yet to get a full understanding of the mechanics of how attacks are measured.