Klax (video game)

Klax
Klax
	North American arcade flyer
Developer	Atari Games
Publishers	Atari Games JP: Namco; Home computers; Domark; NES NA: Tengen; JP: Hudson Soft; Genesis/Mega Drive NA/EU: Tengen; JP: Namcot; 2600, Lynx; Atari Corporation; Game Boy; Mindscape; TurboGrafx-16, Master System, Game Gear; Tengen; Game Boy Color; Midway; Game Boy Advance; NA: Destination Software; EU: Zoo Digital Publishing; ;
Designers	Dave Akers; Mark Stephen Pierce;
Programmer	Dave Akers
Artist	Mark Stephen Pierce
Composer	Brad Fuller NES; LX Rudis; Dave O'Riva; Amiga, CPC, ST, C64, Spectrum; Matt Furniss;
Platform	Arcade Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, MS-DOS, MSX, SAM Coupé, ZX Spectrum, NES, Atari 2600, TurboGrafx-16, Genesis/Mega Drive, Lynx, Game Boy, X68000, PC-88, PC-98, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance ;
Release	February 1990 Arcade NA: February 1990; JP: March 1990; EU: April 1990; Amiga, Atari ST, BBC Micro, C64, C128, CPC, MS-DOS, MSX, Spectrum UK: April 1990; NES NA: July 1990; JP: December 14, 1990; 2600 UK: Mid-1990; TurboGrafx-16 JP: August 10, 1990; NA: September 1990; Genesis/Mega Drive JP: September 7, 1990; NA: September 1990; EU: November 1991; Lynx JP: September 15, 1990; NA: October 1990; Game Boy JP: December 14, 1990; NA: August 1991; X68000 JP: December 14, 1990; Master System EU: November 1991; Game Gear EU: December 10, 1992; NA: 1992; Game Boy Color NA: April 1999; Game Boy Advance NA: August 22, 2005; EU: September 16, 2005; ;
Genre	Puzzle
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer

Klax is a 1990 puzzle video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades; in Japan, it was distributed by Namco. The game was designed and animated by Mark Stephen Pierce, with software engineering by Dave Akers. The object of the game is to catch colored tiles moving down a conveyor belt, and arrange them in matching rows and patterns to make them disappear.

Klax was originally released in February 1990 as an arcade follow-up to Tetris (1989), about which Atari Games had been in a legal dispute. It was later ported to several home and handheld systems, including the Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, Game Boy, and Lynx. The Atari 2600 version of the game, released in the UK in mid-1990, was one of the final licensed games for the console, which was discontinued in early 1992.