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Magic Jewelry

Nintendo Famicom cart. published 34 years ago by RCM Group

Listed in MAME

Magic Jewelry screenshot

Magic Jewelry © 1990 RCM Group

A "Columns" clone developed in Taiwan. Match 3 (or more) identical tiles in either vertical, horizontal, diagonal or even all combined.

TECHNICAL

Players: 1
Controls: d-pad 3 ways
Buttons: 1
[A] or [B] = swap tile

TRIVIA

Magic Jewelry was published in November 1990.

The music played throughout stages is mostly known and copyrighted. Only Jaegerchor (known in English as Hunters' chorus) and Greensleeves (a Medieval folk song) are now in public domain.

Level #000 plays 'All kinds of everything' originally performed by Dana Rosemary Scallon; the song was a winner of 1970 EuroVision held in the Netherlands.
Level #001 plays remixed 'Happy Chinese festival' (also known as 'China festival') originally performed by Chen Yang.
Level #002 plays 'Descendants of the dragon' originally performed by Lee Chien-Fu.
Level #003 plays 'Rise from your grave' originally performed by Tohru Nakabayashi.
Level #004 plays >Hunters' chorus< (or Jaegerchor) originally performed by Carl Maria von Weber.
Level #005 plays 'Moonlight on the Colorado' originally performed by Dick Robertson.
Level #006 plays 'Greensleeves'; it's not known who originally wrote or performed it.
Level #007 plays 'Speak softly, love' performed by Andy Williams. The last tune is taken from 'The Godfather' film.

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Don't litter the playfield: swap the tiles as often as you can. You'll get a game over when you forget to swap any tile. It's not a Tetris-style game requiring you to remove lines.

* Special blocks appear every 70 jewels. They remove all the jewels of that type touched first.

* See the hidden RCM's logo: At the game over screen, hold [Select] + [d-pad right] then press [Start] to see the developer's logo screen. Press [Start] again to continue the game with the same statistics (score, jewels and current level). CAUTION: This is a cheat!

* The game will start after the word 'jewelry' scrolls letter after letter, which takes roughly 40 seconds, so get the pad into your hands quickly.

SERIES

1. Magic Jewelry (1990)
2. Magic Jewelry II (1991)

STAFF

Developed by: Hwang Shinwei

SOURCES

Game's ROM.
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:Magic_Jewelry
https://tcrf.net/Magic_Jewelry