Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-dama

Arcade Video game published 29 years ago by Konami Co., Ltd.

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Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-dama screenshot

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Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-dama © 1995 Konami.

Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-dama is a game in the Taisen Puzzle-dama series featuring the female characters from the Konami dating-sim "Tokimeki Memorial." The game is set up as a two player versus puzzle game with CPU opponents for the single player game.

'Coins' drop in sets of two's from the top of the screen and players must form chains of three or more same colored coins to make them disappear. Clearing multiple chains at a time sends locked coins to the other side. These locked coins are enclosed in clear spheres which are removed when a nearby coin is cleared from the screen. This can set off more chains which adds to the strategy of the game.

If the coins get stacked up to the top of the screen then the player loses the game. Upon continuing the player will restart the same match.

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TECHNICAL

Konami GX hardware

Main CPU : Motorola 68EC020 (@ 24 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 9.2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) K054539 (@ 48 Khz)

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (ROTATE RIGHT, ROTATE LEFT)

TRIVIA

Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-dama was released in December 1995 in Japan only.

This game is based on the school age girls from 'Tokimeki Memorial', a popular Japanese love simulation game.

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Play as secret characters :
1) Select versus mode on first selection scene.
2) 1P push LEFT, 2P push RIGHT and decide mode on second selection scene.
3) 1P push UP, 2P push DOWN and decide handicap on third selection scene.
4) Secret characters appear on fourth selection scene.

SERIES

1. Taisen Puzzle-dama (1994)
2. Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-dama (1995)
3. Taisen Tokkae Puzzle-dama (1996)
4. Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama (1996)

STAFF

* Voice Actors (In the order of the character selection screen) :
Fujisaki Shiori: Mami Kingetsu
Yumi Saotome: Kurin Yoshiki
Nozomi Kiyokawa: Sasaki Ayako
Saki nijino: Sachiko Sugawara
Megumi Mikihara: Mikiko Kurihara
Yukari Koshiki: Ayako Kurosaki
Mio Kisaragi: Akiko Sekine
Yuina Himoo: Tomoko Naka
Yuko Asahina: Yoko Tepouzuka
Mira Kagami: Rei Igarashi
Ayako Katagiri: Masayo Kawaguchi

Programmer: Minoru Koino, Nakane, Kitchen, Shohei
Character Design: Kanbanmusume, Tomonori Matsumoto, Shinami Takahashi, Wakya, BBD Mommy, Mekw, Kazu-chan, Hitomi Terada, Ikuya Nakamura, Kihatchi, Takahiro Z, Gori
Sound Designer: Yuji Takenouchi (Technouchi), Yoshihiko Koezuka (Koezou), Kazuhiro Senoo (Sitar Senoo)
Package Designer: Kazushi Iwashita
Hard Engineer: V Kobe YZZ
Cooperation: Koji Igarashi (Iga), Takashi Tateishi, Yumiko Nozawa, Shuyou Murata
Supervisor: Shigeru Fukutake
Director: Hideyuki Tsujimoto (Hidenoshi)
Producer: Masahiro Inoue

PORTS

CONSOLES:
japan Sega Saturn (sept.27, 1996) "Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-dama [Model T-9512G]"
japan Sony PlayStation (sept.27, 1996) "Tokimeki Memorial - Taisen Puzzle-Dama [Model SLPM-86005]"
japan Sony PlayStation (sept.18, 2003) [Model SLPM-87306] : PSOne Books
japan Sony PlayStation (jan.13, 2010) : PSOne Classics

COMPUTERS:
japan PC [Windows 95, CD-ROM] (dec.26,1996)

SOURCES

Game's ROM.
Game's screenshots.
See goodies section.