Comments on: Puzzle’n Desu! (SFC)

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:51:47 +0000

Hey Chi, good stuff! I didn’t know that you could turn off the timer… that’s very cool. Gives me a good excuse to revisit this hidden gem once again. I just wish there was an option to select as many computer opponents as you wanted in the 4 player battle mode. If I’m not mistaken, only human players can play and you need at least two to play the mode. Too bad you couldn’t set it to 3 computer opponents or even 2 if you’re playing it with the significant other.

But yes, Puzzle’n Desu! is definitely and easily one of my favorite obscure gems on the SNES. If they remade it for the Nintendo Switch, I bet it would kill it with a brand new audience and generation of gamers. Another reader recently and affectionately deemed it “Gnome Squish” which is just too damn stinkin’ cute, LOL!

By: Chi

Chi — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:29:14 +0000

It’s so nice to see somebody else talking about this game! It’s one of those games that I just keep going back to, though like you said, it’s not really well-known at all. I can’t even remember how I first came across it, but I’m glad that I found it =)

I just wanted to mention that you can turn the timer off! It’s the first option in the options menu, like so: https://i.imgur.com/9tcTA2G.png

Maybe you already found that out, but I thought I’d mention it just in case =)

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:08:24 +0000

Hey Cassandra, wow, that’s so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. You know, I write about these games because I want to share my love of them to others. I hope that I’ll introduce others to them or reintroduce these “lost classics” to someone who might have played them once upon a moon but mostly forgotten all about them… that is, until one random night where the memories come back to life. Your story made my night — it’s one of the most memorable comments I’ve ever received in almost 12 years since I started RVGFanatic (going way back to the original site). I love reading about people’s stories like yours. It’s part of the fun and our stories are what keeps the memories alive and what helps to make retro gaming such a cool hobby. Anyway, GNOME SQUISH! That is awesome. If Puzzle’n Desu! ever receives a proper North American release, it definitely needs to be renamed “Gnome Squish.” That’s a title I’m going to remember forever now, lol. Thanks again for the kind words and for sharing your story with me. Glad I could help! It’s not everyday that you meet a fellow Gnome Squish fan

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:10:09 +0000

Thank you for writing this! Probably over ten years ago my best friends and I played a game out of a bunch of emulators we had randomly collected and stumbled upon a game we affectionately referred to as “Gnome Squish”. After the weekend was over we forgot the real name of the game and it or no where felt inspired to try to find it again it the list of hundreds of games. I started googling Gnome and ice blocks and had no luck until I found your list and prayed that someone else had an affection for this game and I’d be able to recognize it based on your descriptions, and huzzah that was the case! Thank you again for loving this game as much as us and for writing this so we could find it again.