History VideoGame / PuyoPuyo1991

''Puyo Puyo'' is a 1991 puzzle game from Creator/{{Compile}}. It is the [[SequelDisplacement largely-forgotten]] first game of the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, predating the [[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo1992 arcade game and its ports]]. It initially released for the UsefulNotes/{{MSX}}2 by Compile, as well as for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom Disk System]] as a bonus disk for Tokuma Shoten's ''Famimaga'' magazine. After the success of the arcade game, Tokuma Shoten would publish an enhanced port of the latter release for the standard Famicom.

''Puyo Puyo'' includes three gameplay modes: an Endless mode, a puzzle-solving Mission mode, and a rudimentary Versus modes.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The ''[[SequelDisplacement original]]'' "Original ''Puyo Puyo''".]]

''Puyo Puyo'' began life as a dice-matching game intended for Compile's [=MSX2=] disk magazine "Disc Station", but things changed when Kazunari Yonemitsu, the man behind Compile's dungeon-crawling RPG ''[[VideoGame/MadouMonogatari Madou Monogatari 1-2-3]]'', got his hands on the project. Yonemitsu swapped the dice for "Puyo Puyo", the CuteSlimeMook of ''Madou Monogatari'', and included cameos by SeriesMascot Carbuncle and then-unnamed heroine Arle Nadja; the game also became a full retail release in the process. Compile's president Masamitsu "MOO" Niitani also wanted to have a port of the game release for the Famicom, but was concerned about Nintendo viewing the game as a ripoff of ''VideoGame/DrMario'', so Compile settled on the dying Famicom Disk System in an attempt to fly under the radar. [[note]]''Puyo Puyo'' was the penultimate release for the [=FDS=], the final game also being a ''Famimaga'' pack-in disk.[[/note]]

** Arle has her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference early "red-stripe" design]] from the [=MSX=] games.

''Puyo Puyo'' began life as a dice-matching game for Compile's [=MSX2=] disk magazine "Disc Station", but things changed when Kazunari Yonemitsu, the man behind Compile's dungeon-crawling RPG ''[[VideoGame/MadouMonogatari Madou Monogatari 1-2-3]]'', got his hands on the project. Yonemitsu swapped the dice for "Puyo Puyo", the CuteSlimeMook of ''Madou Monogatari'', and included cameos by SeriesMascot Carbuncle and then-unnamed heroine Arle Nadja; the game also became a full retail release in the process. Compile's president Masamitsu "MOO" Niitani also wanted to have a port of the game release for the Famicom, but was concerned about Nintendo viewing the game as a ripoff of ''VideoGame/DrMario'', so Compile settled on the dying Famicom Disk System in an attempt to fly under the radar. [[note]]''Puyo Puyo'' was the penultimate release for the [=FDS=], the final game also being a ''Famimaga'' pack-in disk.[[/note]]

''Puyo Puyo'' began life as a dice-matching game for Compile's [=MSX2=] disk magazine "Disc Station", but things changed when Kazunari Yonemitsu, the man behind Compile's dungeon-crawling RPG ''[[VideoGame/MadouMonogatari Madou Monogatari 1-2-3]]'', got his hands on the project. Yonemitsu swapped the dice for "Puyopuyo", the CuteSlimeMook of ''Madou Monogatari'', and included cameos by SeriesMascot Carbuncle and then-unnamed heroine Arle Nadja; the game also became a full retail release in the process. Compile's president Masamitsu "MOO" Niitani also wanted to have a port of the game release for the Famicom, but was concerned about Nintendo viewing the game as a ripoff of ''VideoGame/DrMario'', so they settled on the dying Famicom Disk System in an attempt to fly under the radar. [[note]]''Puyo Puyo'' was the penultimate release for the [=FDS=], the final game also being a ''Famimaga'' pack-in disk.[[/note]]