Block Out
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Blockout is a 1989 puzzle video game developed by Logical Design Works and P.Z.Karen and published by California Dreams. It was developed in Poland by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosław Zabłocki. It is a 3D puzzle game similar to Tetris. Technōs Japan developed an arcade port titled Block Out.
From Wikipedia's article Blockout, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Keyboard controls
| Lynx | Player 1 |
|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ |
| B | Z |
| A | X |
| Option 1 | A |
| Option 2 | S |
| Pause | Enter |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
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Keyboard controls
| Lynx | Player 1 |
|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ |
| B | Z |
| A | X |
| Option 1 | A |
| Option 2 | S |
| Pause | Enter |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
4.0 Great job!
Players 81 · 944 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 81 · 944 votes. The same 81/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordsaddictive
What the critics said
The New York Times reviewed the game in an article about educational software for mathematics, writing that Blockout "doesn't pretend to be educational, but the skills required to master it are not unrelated to mathematics, particularly geometry."
— The New York Times
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Blockout article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- Famitsu 1991 7/10, 7/10, 7/10, 6/10 (Mega Drive) (other versions)
- IGN 1999 8/10 (Lynx) (other versions)
- MegaTech 91%
- Mega 67%
- PC Leisure 1990 4/5
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
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