While Nintendo had their standard Tetris too (in fact, there were two or three different variants of Tetris on the NES, it's a bit complicated), they also had their own Tetris spin-off: Dr. Mario. Don't forget, this was the time when Mario was more widely recognized by children than Mickey Mouse. It would have been foolish to leave him out.
Dr. Mario is more closely related to Columns than to the classic Tetris, as in general Columns has been more popular with commercial developers. But Dr. Mario introduces a completely new element: Instead of clearing the falling blocks themselves, the object is to clear special, previously placed elements.
In Dr. Mario, the well has been replaced with a bottle. In this bottle, there are some germs dancing in place. From the top, two-colored pills fall down. They can be seen as two cells. There are only three different colors. When there are four cells of the same color in a row, they vanish. The other half of the pills then continues to fall down. The germs, just like the pill halves, count as a cell. So the trick is, of course, to pile pills of the same color on top of the germs.
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