Klax

Klax

1990 · Atari Games

3.0 out of 5, 18 ratings

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.

Release date
February 1, 1990
Developer
Atari Games, Teque Software Development, Tengen, Atari Games
Publisher
Atari Games, Domark Software, Tengen
Genres
PuzzleStrategyArcade
Themes
Action
Age rating
ESRB E

Media

Platforms

Nintendo Entertainment System
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
Sega Master System/Mark III
MSX

Release dates

Arcade
North America · Feb 1, 1990
Nintendo Entertainment System
North America · Jul 1, 1990
Family Computer
Japan · Dec 14, 1990

Languages

LanguagesAudioSubtitlesInterface
English (US)