Tetris Attack

ヨッシーのパネポン

Tetris Attack
System Super Famicom / SNES, Game Boy
Developer Intelligent Systems
Genre Puzzle

A block puzzle game featuring characters from Yoshi's Island.

Rows of coloured blocks rise from the bottom of the screen. Using the cursor, you have to switch horizontally adjacent blocks to create horizontal or vertical lines of three or more of the same colour. Matched blocks vanish and any blocks above them will tumble down. If the stack of blocks hits the top of the screen then it's game over.

The game features an Endless Mode, a Story Mode where Yoshi must free his friends by beating them, and a Puzzle Mode, where you must clear all the blocks within a certain number of moves.

Alternate Versions

Panel Pop

Panel Pop

The original Japanese game that Tetris Attack is based on. Panel Pop featured a cast of fairies fighting against evil forces that invaded their world. The characters were swapped out in favour of characters from Yoshi's Island.

Tetris Attack (Game Boy)

Tetris Attack (GB)

The Game Boy version plays the same as the Super Famicom / SNES version, featuring the same modes and puzzles as before.

The Japanese version also adopts the Yoshi's Island characters in place of the fairies who populated the Super Famicom game.

Release Information

Super Famicom / SNES Version

Region Date Name System
US Aug 1996 Tetris Attack SFC/SNES
Europe 28 Nov 1996 Tetris Attack SFC/SNES

Game Boy Version

Region Date Name System
US Aug 1996 Tetris Attack Game Boy
Japan 26 Oct 1996 ヨッシーのパネポン Yoshi no Panepon Game Boy
Europe 28 Nov 1996 Tetris Attack Game Boy
Japan 01 Mar 2000 ヨッシーのパネポン Yoshi no Panepon Game Boy
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