Klax

[MotoRoaderMike]

What the hell? Mike! Why are you making a thread about KLAX? Well, I recently bought the Game Gear version, and now I have teeny weeny urge to hunt down the TG16 version, so I downloaded the ROM of it a few days ago. Klax is a simple puzzle game. You must match three tiles of the same color in a row, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. It wasn't the first time I had played Klax. The first time I played it was on Midway Arcade Treasures for the PS2.

[Turbo D]

klax is a cool game, I remember playing it at the arcade when I was younger.

[Tatsujin]

played it a lot on the lynx back in the early days. klax wave!!

[lbblue]

What the hell? Mike! Why are you making a thread about KLAX?

[turbofan1]

Its not any worse than the stupid guess the picture thread.

[lbblue]

Its not any worse than the stupid guess the picture thread.

True dat !
although, I was only joking, b/c he asked that question, yet I didn't really feel that he answered it satisfactorily.

Here's a review for the tg16 version :
http://www.mobygames.com/game/turbo-grafx/klax/mobyrank


"Die geniale Geschicklichkeitsgrübelei "Klax" gleicht dem Automatenvorbild wie ein Ei dem anderen und spielt sich eine Winzigkeit besser als Mega Drive"

"The ingenious Geschicklichkeitsgrübelei "Klax" resembles the automat model as an egg the other one and plays themselves a extreme smallness better than mega drive"

LOL

[JoshTurboTrollX]

the NES version by TENGEN rules. Its way better than the TG-16 ver.

It has better/more music and more features.  Its kind of strange that they didn't have any of that stuff in the more powerful systems......

[esteban]

the NES version by TENGEN rules. Its way better than the TG-16 ver.

It has better/more music and more features.  Its kind of strange that they didn't have any of that stuff in the more powerful systems......

Wow, I'll have to find that. Is this one of the "hard to find" NES Tengen carts (i.e. like Tengen Tetris, which is far superior to the Nintendo version)?

I like KLAX, but I've never played the NES version (I have the Lynx version, of course). I thought the TG-16 version was nice, especially the ability to customize the challenge (the points required to pass a wave)... this wasn't in the Genesis version.

However, TG-16 is single-player and doesn't support 2-player (Genesis did).

I used to play the TG-16 version (SFX only) while listening to my own music. This was the original way folks did "customizable soundtracks" .

Super Mario Kart was another game that we did this to (too bad you couldn't have SFX only in super mario kart).

[nat]

I have the original arcade version on the Midway Classics compilation.

I've always wondered how the TG-16 version stacks up to the arcade original. I remember hearing bad things about it way back in the day, but my memory from those days is kind of dodgy.

[GUTS]

Do people still have time for klax even though it's not the 90s?

[Turbo D]

no, they don't 

[esteban]

Do people still have time for klax even though it's not the 90s?

Only old fogies like myself, apparently.

[TR0N]

I have the original arcade version on the Midway Classics compilation.

I've always wondered how the TG-16 version stacks up to the arcade original. I remember hearing bad things about it way back in the day, but my memory from those days is kind of dodgy.

Wasn't a bad port for it's time i guess on the TG16.

These days i'll just play klax on the midway arcade treasure.

It's funny though how the japanese thought the spelling for klax ment crack 

Ahh some things, don't translate well from english to japanese and vice virsa.

Still any... videos i've seen of the klax for the nes version on youtube make it seem weak.

NES KLax

[gundarN]

I recently got Klax for the PCE (cheap from D-Lite), and not having played any other version in detail, I found it quite addictive.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

I like Klax on the ol' Duo, but too bad you can't rotate the screen on an Express and play it vertically (Lynx style).

[Turbo D]

rotating it on an express would render it unplayable, wouldn't it? 

[JoshTurboTrollX]

videos i've seen of the klax for the nes version on youtube make it seem weak.

Yeah just tried the ole NES ver.  That video is from a Emu- and the music sounds WAYYY better on the actual hardware.


Never judge ANY game based on an Emulator!

[CrackTiger]

I like Klax on the ol' Duo, but too bad you can't rotate the screen on an Express and play it vertically (Lynx style).

If the TE had a wider screen and the ramp took up the entire screen like the Lynx version, then it might work out okay.

It doesn't really matter though, since the higher resolution Turbo version combined with the TE screen must give you a much better image anyway.