History Trivia / PuyoPuyo

** It's been more than ten years since the last "mainline" ''Puyo'' game, 2009's ''Puyo Puyo 7''.

* BTeamSequel: ''Puzzle Pop'' is the first game in ''Puyo'' history to be primarily developed in America, as the App Store description credits Sega of America as opposed to every other game being credited to the Japanese-based Compile, the main Sega Corporation, [=M2=], or Sonic Team.

** ''Soldam'', which released in 1992 (some sites put it at September), might also qualify as a direct competitor to the first arcade game. Like ''Puyo Puyo'', it is a puzzle game whose aesthetics are heavily based on [[VideoGame/RodLand a previous game]] by [[Creator/{{Jaleco}} its respective developer]]. There's no question as to who won this contest and, what's more, the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch reboot of ''Soldam'' features an [[http://i.imgur.com/xgNuWMH.png art style]] heavily [[{{Understatement}} "inspired"]] by the post-''20th'' ''Puyo Puyo'' artstyle.

** Don't have an N-Gage or later Platform/{{Symbian}} OS phone? Tough luck trying to play the N-Gage ''Puyo Pop''. Even worse than the English arcade game because, as of this writing, there isn't a single N-Gage emulator that plays non-[[UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguages Java]] based games. ''Puyo Pop'' wasn't made with Java.

* SleeperHit: By most accounts, ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' is this. Given past localization efforts didn't sell well, many fans hoped, but didn't expect the game to do well, but it was one of the top selling games early in the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch's lifespan.

** However, there is another issue with the rest of the series. Basically, if it wasn't the original, any of its {{Dolled Up Installment}}s, or ''Tsu'', chances are those entries will never see the light of day on any modern system. ''Sun'' just '''barely''' escapes this with ''VS Puyo Puyo Sun'' on the Genesis Mini 2 (even if it was just the multiplayer mode ported over), but everything from ''Yo~n'' to ''Chronicles'' are hard locked to the systems they were developed for. ''Fever'' is especially bad since that game was developed internally by Sonic Team and already has full international language support, meaning theoretically, there should be no reason why it wouldn't get remastered in any capacity.

** Don't have an N-Gage or later Symbian OS phone? Tough luck trying to play the N-Gage ''Puyo Pop''. Even worse than the English arcade game because, as of this writing, there isn't a single N-Gage emulator that plays non-[[UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguages Java]] based games. ''Puyo Pop'' wasn't made with Java.

** Inverted with the UsefulNotes/NGage ''Puyo Pop'', which was released everywhere except Japan.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: There hasn't been a Madou Monogatari game using the original cast of characters since 2000. SEGA currently owns the rights to Puyo Puyo, as well as the rights to the characters from it, since many of said characters are also in Puyo games. However, D4 Enterprise own the rights to the Madou Monogatari name and world, and... basically nothing in said world, leaving them unable to make any new Madou games that have anything to do with the series as it was pre-rights issues beyond the title and genre. It's speculated this is also why SEGA haven't returned to the original Madou Monogatari world and always have the characters [[TrappedInAnotherWorld appear out of nowhere needing to be returned to where they came from]].

* TheWikiRule: [[https://puyonexus.com/wiki/Main_Page The Puyo Nexus Wiki.]]