Data East chose Drop-Drop and signed a contract with Russ to produce their own version and the game's graphic designer led development in a direction that would appeal to female players, with the team creating a visual design that could fit its rules by using tarot cards as a motif, serving as basis for Magical Drop. It ran on the Data East Simple 156 hardware.ĭata East wanted to make a puzzle game due to their casual nature and came across during their research with Moscow Nights (1993), a collection of puzzle games from Russia published by Black Legend for MS-DOS and among them they liked a title programmed by Russ called Drop-Drop (1992), which they found uninteresting to play but enjoyed its basic core mechanic and started thinking ways to make it more interesting.

Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode.

The objective is to clear the screen of constantly advancing colored 'drops' via a character placed at the bottom of the playfield, which can grab drops and make them disappear by putting them as a column of three or more drops of the same color. In the game, the player takes control of one of six characters, battling against computer-controlled opponents before facing the goddess World in a final encounter. It is the first entry in the Magical Drop series. It was later ported to Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation. Magical Drop is a 1995 puzzle video game developed and released by Data East in Japanese arcades.

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