

G-mode bought and currently now owns the intellectual rights to the Magical Drop franchise along with several other of Data East's franchises and titles.
MAGICAL DROP V WIKI SERIES
The last games in the series released in the United States were Magical Drop Pocket for the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 1999 and Magical Drop for the Game Boy Color in 2000. The series became better known for its Neo-Geo sequels, Magical Drop II and Magical Drop III, due to the popularity of the Neo-Geo platform. Despite the arcade game being released worldwide while using the English title in North America and Europe, Data East gave the official English names of its successors the same names as their Japanese counterparts, while the home versions of the first game were never released outside Japan. In 1995, Data East released the first game in the series as a coin-operated version of this game titled Magical Drop (known in North America as Chain Reaction). Magical Drop is based on a game called Drop-Drop created by Russ Ltd, a Russian company. For example, with the character Devil, all the columns will descend at the same rate, whereas with Sun, the middle columns will descend faster than the others. This causes a disjunction of colors that may make it more difficult for the other player to clear their stack. The columns of the opponent's stack will descend at different rates relative to each other depending on the character chosen. Different characters have different attack patterns. There are 24 characters, all but the Black Pierrot being named after a tarot card (although the Strength card has been represented by two characters throughout the series). The game is normally played with two players (one may be a computer opponent), and chains cause the opponent's stack to descend faster. Chains are formed either when a single drop caused a chain reaction, or when more than one group of bubbles is destroyed in quick succession. Bubbles can be picked up and dropped by the player's clown at the bottom, and are destroyed when three or more of the same color are put together on a single column. 4.4 Magical Drop F - Daibouken Mo Rakujyanai! (マジカルドロップF・大冒険もラクじゃない!)Ī stack of random colored bubbles descend from the top, and a player is defeated when a bubble hits the bottom.
