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Gameplay is simple. You have a screen full of differently colored blocks (also marked by different shapes). You can swap the blocks freely horizontally, but you cannot swap them vertically. Get three or more of the same block in a row, and they vanish. Get more than 3 in a row, clear multiple sets of 3 at once, or create a chain--the blocks that fall in to replace the ones that you just cleared form more sets of 3 or more--and you get more points. However, the stack of blocks is constantly growing, and if it reaches the top of the screen, you lose. While a simple formula, it lends itself well to many variants: Play until you lose, score as many points as possible in a limited time, clear all the blocks on screen with limited moves, face off against a CPU to see who loses first (with unclearable "garbage" to speed up the process)...
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 ''[[
Aside from a [[Super Smash Bros]] cameo, Lip has been nowhere to be seen in puzzle land for quite some time. She did, however, show up as a character in ''[[Captain Rainbow]].''
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* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: In the story mode of the SNES games, for the first 8 stages the protagonist (Lip in ''PdP'', Yoshi in ''TA'') battles their friends who have been put under a spell. Winning against them breaks the spell.
** Beating bonus trainers after [[Guide Dang It|fulfilling certain conditions]] in ''Pokemon Puzzle Challenge's'' Challenge mode unlocks their pokemon for you to use.
* [[Dolled-Up Installment]]: The first game was released as ''Tetris Attack'' in the US, and featured characters from ''[[
* [[Dummied Out]]: [[Nostalgia Level|Lip's Stage]] from Planet Puzzle League is only unlockable in Japan. Other countries will have to access it via Action Replay.
* [[Excuse Plot]]: Lip's fairy friends/Yoshi's monster friends getting kidnapped. ''Pokémon Puzzle League'' featured Ash taking part in a "new kind" of Pokémon battling league.
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