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Klax

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First release
Feb 1990
Genres
Arcade, Strategy, Puzzle · Action
Platforms
Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, DOS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Game Gear, Arcade, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Atari ST/STE, Sega Master System/Mark III, Atari 5200, BBC Microcomputer System, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Family Computer

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 dates
Arcade
Feb 1990
Nintendo Entertainment System
Jul 1990
Family Computer
Dec 14, 1990
All 16 release dates
Amstrad CPC
1990
ZX Spectrum
1990
MSX
1990
DOS
1990
Commodore C64/128/MAX
1990
Amiga
1990
Atari Lynx
1990
Atari ST/STE
1990
BBC Microcomputer System
1990
Sega Master System/Mark III
1991
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
1991
Atari 7800
2002
Atari 5200
2003
Age ratings
ESRB E
Game modes
Split screen, Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Third person
Keywords
gravity, blocks, abstract, block matching, oddly-shaped cartridge
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IGDB · recorded 18 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 18 Oct 2026