Coloris

Coloris is something like the default Columns on the Amiga. Amiga people don't talk about Columns clones, they talk about Coloris (occasionally, incorrectly, Colorix) clones. Not that there were all too many on the Amiga.

Coloris has two game modes: Marathon is standard Columns gameplay, in Time mode rows are added from below, making the game more difficult. In both modes the speed of the falling blocks can be rediced by pushing the joystick up, at the cost of a reduction of points.

There is an ongoing rumor about an Atari ST version of Coloris. A demo for a Coloris II for this platform actually exists, it seems however that this game was never finished. There is a Commodore 64 game of the same name, it, too, unfinished, but it was the product of Dutch programmer Stefan Okhuyzen (part of the group Lethal Productions who created Violator) and had no direct relationship to the Amiga game, except as a clone.

Except for the musician Tor Bernhard Gausen, who also wrote the music for Twintris, no member of the Coloris team seems to have been involved in any other Amiga game.