Which is a copy of Puyo Pop Fever, which spawned a LOT of clones!
This game was released in November, in 2003. It's another Robotnik's copy, one of the latest copies I would say.
Just to be clear, Mean Bean Machine is a clone of Puyo Pop, rather than the other way around:
International releases
The 1992 arcade Puyo Puyo was translated to English with character name changes and minor visual changes to the Harpy (renamed Dark Elf) character's skit.[citation needed] The Game Gear port of the 1992 arcade game, when used in a non-Japanese Game Gear, loads a similar version titled Puzlow Kids; however, the Game Gear version never officially left Japan.[citation needed]
Instead of directly translating the Mega Drive version of the 1992 arcade game, Sega decided to replace the Madou Monogatari cast with Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog villains. The resulting game, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, was released in 1993. Nintendo followed suit in 1995, modifying Super Puyo Puyo into Kirby's Avalanche (Kirby's Ghost Trap in Europe). Spectrum HoloByte also released a Puyo Puyo title for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh in August 1995, under the name Qwirks.[9]
Not quite a copy, the method to clear is different but it's clearly similar otherwise.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
Does the amount of garbage you send at your opponent increase with larger chains? Would that be more effective than the strategies you did here?
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
I checked myself: it does send more garbage and it is much more effective.
Link to videoUser movie #53155561130188706
As one can quite clearly see, this is super sloppy: I had a ton of moments of indecision and forgot to speed up the fall of the blocks the whole time but I still managed to beat the submission's first level by 173 frames by using better clearing strategies.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
