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''[[Panel de Pon]]'' (Or ''Tetris Attack'', or ''Puzzle League,'' or ''Puzzle Challenge,'' or one of any inumerable ripoffs running around the world) is a [[Match Three Game]] published originally by [[Nintendo]], but copied (both in formula and directly) by dozens of others. While not the [[Trope Maker]] for the [[Match Three Game]], it certainly helped popularize the genre.

 

The original ''Panel de Pon'' came out for the SNES in 1996, along with a Game Boy version. The plot ([[Excuse Plot|such as it was]]) starred a fairy named Lip trying to rescue her friends. Since no self-respecting gamer would buy a game featuring 'girly girls' in those days, Nintendo decided to do the infamous palette and name swap, the same way they did to ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. The US version was [[Dolled-Up Installment]] as ''[[Tetris Attack]],'' with identical gameplay but with a ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' theme, a few extra options and character profiles, and ''nothing to do with Tetris at all''. It later saw two ''[[Pokémon]]''-themed reskinnings: ''Pokémon Puzzle League,'' for the N64, introduced a "3D" mode with a cylinder of blocks instead of a stack, and ''Pokémon Puzzle Challenge,'' which was almost a proto-''[[Puzzle Quest]].'' It had "battles" between Pokémon played out in puzzle matches, and some adventuring on the side. The name "Puzzle League" stuck: A Game Boy Advance compilation release (along with ''Dr. Mario'') simply entitled it "Puzzle League," as did the DS version.

 

 

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