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Wario's Woods

warios woods gameplay with toad adn creatures and fairy and birdo. no wario		 Toad game. He's trapped in the well and picking up enemies to match them. The two versions are very different.
Release Date: February 19, 1994
Developer: Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems
Platforms: FC / NES, SFC / SNES
Undervalued game based on Daruma Otoshi toys (the one with the hammer).
Release Date: April 1994
Developer: Metro Corporation
Platforms: Arcade, SFC

Daruma Dojo

Gameplay with a cool old man in the background

Gururin

gururin rotating board gameplay		 Scary beloved washing machine game. Rotate your little guys and hope that they match.
Release Date: May 25, 1994
Developer: Face
Platforms: Arcade
A new Columns with a tournament story mode. Notable for a surprising ending.
Release Date: May 1994
Developer: Sega AM1
Platforms: Arcade

Stack Columns

Picture of a red planet with the text With these words, the world was over.

Pnickies

pnickies screenshot with angel and devil on each player's side. and a weird pink star man in the middle.		 Angels and devils matching game with delicious gummy blocks.
Release Date: June 8, 1994
Developer: Compile
Platforms: Arcade
Bubble Bobble spinoff about ricocheting bubbles to make matches. Good aim is essential.
Release Date: June 1994
Developer: Taito
Platforms: Arcade, SFC / SNES, Neo Geo, 3DO, Game Gear, WonderSwan

Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move

bobble screenshot with the little characters around the ball launching device

Taisen Puzzle-dama / Crazy Cross

cartoon dog vs cartoon penguin gameplay		 The start of Konami's color matching series. Similar to Puyo but with its own wrinkles.
Release Date: July 1994
Developer: Konami
Platforms: Arcade
Added offsetting, which lets you counter incoming garbage by making your own matches. Popularized versus puzzle games and inspired most of the genre that came after it.
Release Date: September 1994
Developer: Compile
Platforms: Arcade, Mega Drive / Genesis, Game Gear, PC-98, Saturn, SFC / SNES, Windows, PSX, Game Boy, WonderSwan, NGPC...

Puyo Puyo Tsu / 2

arle from puyo dramatically holding up 2 fingers

Super Tetris 3

two fantasy sexy gothic mage women lean up against the tetris board		 Super Tetris 3. There are new modes. It might be the coolest game ever made.
Release Date: December 16, 1994
Developer: Tose
Platforms: SFC
The start of Bomberman's own puzzle series. Matches add bombs to YOUR side- you have to detonate them to send garbage blocks.
Release Date: December 22, 1994
Developer: Hudson Soft
Platforms: PC Engine, PC-98, FM Towns, X68000, Arcade, SFC

Bomberman: Panic Bomber

bomberman gameplay with a little portrait of a smiling orange balloon in the middle

Naname de Magic!

a sword guy is on one side and a shocked mermaid with huge wet eyes is on the other.		 Cast spells when you make diagonal matches.
Release Date: 1994
Developer: Atlus
Platforms: Arcade
The origin of the gameplay that Bejeweled popularized.
Release Date: 1994
Developer: Zhenya Alemzhin
Platforms: MS DOS

Shariki

shariki gameplay with a game over popup with a simple doodle of a character sticking out their tongue out

Hebereke's Popoitto

dialogue scene with the orange cat saying So you thought you could defeat me?		 What if the Dr. Mario viruses moved around? These guys are always up to something crazy...
Release Date: 1994
Developer: Sunsoft, Success
Platforms: Arcade, SFC / SNES, PSX, Saturn
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