Klax
Puzzle
Strategy
Arcade
Action
60
User Score
18 ratings
February 1, 1990
Released 13233 days ago
Arcade
BBC Microcomputer System
Atari 7800
Commodore C64/128/MAX
ZX Spectrum
Atari Lynx
Atari ST/STE
Sega Game Gear
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Atari 5200
DOS
Amiga
Family Computer
Amstrad CPC
Nintendo Entertainment System
Sega Master System/Mark III
MSX
About
Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, to which the object of Columns is similar. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.
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Release Dates by Platform
Arcade
Worldwide
Feb 1, 1990
Nintendo Entertainment System
Worldwide
Jul 1, 1990
Family Computer
Worldwide
Dec 14, 1990
BBC Microcomputer System
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
MSX
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Atari ST/STE
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
ZX Spectrum
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Atari Lynx
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Amiga
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Amstrad CPC
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
DOS
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1990
Sega Master System/Mark III
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1991
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1991
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Worldwide
Dec 31, 1991
Atari 7800
Worldwide
Dec 31, 2002
Atari 5200
Worldwide
Dec 31, 2003
Game Info
- Developer
- Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games
- Publisher
- Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
- Game Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
- Perspective
- Third person
- Genres
- Puzzle Strategy Arcade
- Themes
- Action
Languages
- Text / Subtitles
- English
