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I don't think a disambiguation page is appropriate. From what I read, that's intended for situations where one term can mean many things. "Panel De Pon", for example, does not literally mean "Tetris Attack", even though they are nearly identical games. Same with "Pokémon Puzzle League". I suggest the other variations of the game should have small pages explaining what they are and then direct people to the Tetris Attack page for more detail. "Tetris Attack" is still, I believe, the most well-known (distinctive) name for the game with English people. Maybe "Puzzle League" will take it over eventually... but I don't think so yet. Thoughts?
I suggested that the article be split, but I didn't mean into a disambiguation page. They didn't have a tab for just splitting the article into just seperate articles; at least, I didn't see one at first. I wanted to make it so that Panel De Pon has its own page. I fixed it now. PsychoJosh 09:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I think that Panel De Pon should have a separate page from this, as it's a completely different version of Tetris Attack, and this page has barely any information on that version at all. PsychoJosh 13:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Is all this gender-bias talk about Panel de Pon and TA and "looking half as feminine" and such necessary? Furthermore, and more importantly, is it NPOV? -- Ed Cormany 05:07, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hmm. I wonder if this article is accurate. According to my recollection Tetris was written by some Russian as a pd game. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 07:35 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
The maximum number of tiles that can be cleared in a combo is not 14, but 66 (using a chain to drop the 33 tiles to line up horizontally)... Seems pretty pointless to include this in an encyclopedia article, I'd prefer the sentence about a "maximum combo" be removed altogether
What do you know, my favorite puzzle game is on here! I have a page about skill chains, with nice pictures. Since I'm not sure if it would be self-promotion to add a link to it (and I'm quite new to Wikis), I mention it here so someone else can make an unbiased determination. Blargg 06:44 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
check out http://www.tetrisattack.net and the message board there too
Hey (same user as before). The webmaster seems to be moving to www.tetrisattack.com (which currently redirects to .net). You may want to keep an eye on that, as I'm not sure whether he's going to keep the .net domain or not.
Because changes made in the conversion were all aesthetic, I think maybe a Panel De Pon article should have all the information on the game and it's concept and the article Tetris Attack should either list what differentiates it from the original or just redirect to Panel De Pon where the two versions can be summarized. Bad idea? Callus 06:42, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
This section seems like a big ol' advertisement. Anyone else think so? 199.126.137.209 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I believe this article is extremely bias towards Tetris Attack. It makes it seem like Tetris Attack was a blatant rip-off of Panel de Pon or whatever it's called, while Pokemon is simply an "update" of Tetris Attack. Sorry, but if Tetris Attack did rip-off Panel de Pon, that would mean Pokemon puzzle league ripped off not only Panel de Pon as well, but Tetris Attack. Might we want to compare differences with Tetris Attack and Pokemon Puzzle League?...If there are any? I'm not going to change anything in this deeply depraved article, but anyone who agrees with me on this is welcome. (Oh, and no flaming me please, that will just prove how immature you are, either that or how easily offended you are) Thank you.
Jugulation 14:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)Jugulation
Now that Panel de Pon has been merged into this article, the article needs some serious cleanup:
— KieferSkunk ( talk) — 01:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Make sure not to follow my example and merge articles such as Pokémon Puzzle League, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, the Puzzle League section of Dr. Mario and Puzzle League, and Planet Puzzle League. I could see the former two games being merged together and maybe the Dr. Mario/Puzzle League article's content being included in a "versions of Dr. Mario" and "versions of Puzzle League" section in respective series articles sometime in the future. Planet Puzzle League is, however, not mergeable at all, as it has many unique features to any other game in the series. - A Link to the Past (talk) 17:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to formally propose that we re-split this article into separate articles about Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack. While they are basically the same game with different graphics, each one is notable in its own right, and the number of plot and graphical differences between the two releases are enough to warrant an entire comparison section. As I mentioned above, I think having the two articles merged under Tetris Attack puts undue weight on the American release. (I should note that I think this is one notable exception to the general rule that very similar games on similar platforms should be merged.) — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 17:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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links to individual articles in the few cases where it's appropriate to do so. (At this point, I'm thinking we might only have one or two cases where this will be true.) —
KieferSkunk (
talk) — 00:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
At long last, the article has been split. See below. :) — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 19:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I've reverted a few unsourced edits recently that claim that Kirby's stone attack causes him to take on the shape of one of Lip's garbage blocks - in other words, that the Kirby games reference Panel de Pon. The most recent of these edits cited a screenshot from what looks to be Super Smash Bros. Melee, so I wanted to address this issue a little further.
A screenshot from SSBM is not a sufficient source for this assertion, for two reasons:
Hope this helps clarify my reverts. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 03:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I'm just dumb, but why merge Panel De Pon with Tetris Attack? Just because they're basically the same game? Well, I also really hate the Tetris Attack version, but anyway...
Telemachus Claudius Rhade 20:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Even though it appears as such, nowhere in the game does it actually say they're the daughters of the original cast. I even checked the Japanese wiki on the subject, and it just says that gaming sources had only speculated of it being the case. 75.152.155.200 20:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest moving this article to "Puzzle League". Tetris Attack is indeed the original title, but Puzzle League is the currently accepted title, due to later versions not being named something like "Dr. Mario & Tetris Attack", "Pokémon Tetris Attack" and "Planet Tetris Attack". Otherwise, let's create an article about the Panel de Pon/Puzzle League series, and let this article discuss about the SNES title. - Parrothead1983 4:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Who on Earth is Bumpty? There are only the other 12 characters in my game... 70.44.147.242 00:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Umm... Bumpty in Tetris Attack is the Penguin. He's Stage 2 in the story mode. Tomatzu ( talk) 00:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
When I looked at this page years ago, it sucked. After waves of changes, it still sucks. I can't help saying "I told you so." I put a lot of effort in back then to make it kick ass. For a while, it did, but a lot of my old edits got chopped out because they were supposedly fancruft. IMHO, though, it's better to have a good page with some bias than a shitty page that's supposedly neutral. To anyone with good enough taste to like this series of games, I respectively suggest you don't waste your time on this article. If you actually say anything good about the game, it'll just get deleted. And who cares about the rest? 24.64.240.230 ( talk) 01:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
"Aside from several new tracks based on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island..." Is this true? Which music specifically is based on Yoshi's Island? I was under the impression all the music was directly ported from Panel De Pon. Poobslag ( talk) 01:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it constructive to have a comprehensive list of characters here? Some articles have it ( Puyo Puyo) but most articles don't ( Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Magical Drop, Puyo Puyo Sun, Meteos)... It doesn't seem like it helps the article. Poobslag ( talk) 21:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I've just finished splitting Panel de Pon out into its own article from this one. It was a lot of work, but I think it'll have been worth it. Both articles need more work, though.
Right now, both articles have the same "Newer Versions" section - this section needs to be tailored to each game's relevant information. Also, if someone has more information on each game's specific releases and market info, that would be great - the infobox and information on each game's releases was all combined together in the original merged article, so I may not have split them apart correctly.
Finally, let's please remember to keep fancruft and listcruft out of these articles. Please see the VGProj Article Guidelines for a run-down on what kinds of information are accepted by consensus and what are not.
Thanks for your patience, folks! — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 19:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a section for the ports and games similar to this such as Pokémon Puzzle League, Tetris Attack/Puzzle Frenzy and so on? -- 75.163.187.227 ( talk) 03:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Crack Attack! is an OpenGL puzzle game similar to the Super Nintendo classic game "Tetris Attack". References:
— Ark25 ( talk) 23:28, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Personally I think Panel de Pon is worthy of its own page as it came first, instead of being a redirect to a sub-header on this one. I'll only revert the merge if there's overwhelming opposition to it though. Deku-Scrub ( talk) 19:24, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
As there does not seem to be active opposition to the merge, I will be re-initializing it unless there are objections. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 17:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
The unaltered version of Panel de Pon will soon be released on Nintendo Switch Online, under that title in all regions. Furthermore, it appears that the name Tetris Attack will no longer be used by Nintendo in any context, due to The Tetris Company not wanting the game to be associated with their brand. I think a title change to Panel de Pon may be apropos, perhaps with Tetris Attack as a separate article. -- 90.227.30.140 ( talk) 23:31, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
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I don't think a disambiguation page is appropriate. From what I read, that's intended for situations where one term can mean many things. "Panel De Pon", for example, does not literally mean "Tetris Attack", even though they are nearly identical games. Same with "Pokémon Puzzle League". I suggest the other variations of the game should have small pages explaining what they are and then direct people to the Tetris Attack page for more detail. "Tetris Attack" is still, I believe, the most well-known (distinctive) name for the game with English people. Maybe "Puzzle League" will take it over eventually... but I don't think so yet. Thoughts?
I suggested that the article be split, but I didn't mean into a disambiguation page. They didn't have a tab for just splitting the article into just seperate articles; at least, I didn't see one at first. I wanted to make it so that Panel De Pon has its own page. I fixed it now. PsychoJosh 09:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I think that Panel De Pon should have a separate page from this, as it's a completely different version of Tetris Attack, and this page has barely any information on that version at all. PsychoJosh 13:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Is all this gender-bias talk about Panel de Pon and TA and "looking half as feminine" and such necessary? Furthermore, and more importantly, is it NPOV? -- Ed Cormany 05:07, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hmm. I wonder if this article is accurate. According to my recollection Tetris was written by some Russian as a pd game. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 07:35 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
The maximum number of tiles that can be cleared in a combo is not 14, but 66 (using a chain to drop the 33 tiles to line up horizontally)... Seems pretty pointless to include this in an encyclopedia article, I'd prefer the sentence about a "maximum combo" be removed altogether
What do you know, my favorite puzzle game is on here! I have a page about skill chains, with nice pictures. Since I'm not sure if it would be self-promotion to add a link to it (and I'm quite new to Wikis), I mention it here so someone else can make an unbiased determination. Blargg 06:44 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
check out http://www.tetrisattack.net and the message board there too
Hey (same user as before). The webmaster seems to be moving to www.tetrisattack.com (which currently redirects to .net). You may want to keep an eye on that, as I'm not sure whether he's going to keep the .net domain or not.
Because changes made in the conversion were all aesthetic, I think maybe a Panel De Pon article should have all the information on the game and it's concept and the article Tetris Attack should either list what differentiates it from the original or just redirect to Panel De Pon where the two versions can be summarized. Bad idea? Callus 06:42, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
This section seems like a big ol' advertisement. Anyone else think so? 199.126.137.209 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I believe this article is extremely bias towards Tetris Attack. It makes it seem like Tetris Attack was a blatant rip-off of Panel de Pon or whatever it's called, while Pokemon is simply an "update" of Tetris Attack. Sorry, but if Tetris Attack did rip-off Panel de Pon, that would mean Pokemon puzzle league ripped off not only Panel de Pon as well, but Tetris Attack. Might we want to compare differences with Tetris Attack and Pokemon Puzzle League?...If there are any? I'm not going to change anything in this deeply depraved article, but anyone who agrees with me on this is welcome. (Oh, and no flaming me please, that will just prove how immature you are, either that or how easily offended you are) Thank you.
Jugulation 14:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)Jugulation
Now that Panel de Pon has been merged into this article, the article needs some serious cleanup:
— KieferSkunk ( talk) — 01:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Make sure not to follow my example and merge articles such as Pokémon Puzzle League, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, the Puzzle League section of Dr. Mario and Puzzle League, and Planet Puzzle League. I could see the former two games being merged together and maybe the Dr. Mario/Puzzle League article's content being included in a "versions of Dr. Mario" and "versions of Puzzle League" section in respective series articles sometime in the future. Planet Puzzle League is, however, not mergeable at all, as it has many unique features to any other game in the series. - A Link to the Past (talk) 17:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to formally propose that we re-split this article into separate articles about Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack. While they are basically the same game with different graphics, each one is notable in its own right, and the number of plot and graphical differences between the two releases are enough to warrant an entire comparison section. As I mentioned above, I think having the two articles merged under Tetris Attack puts undue weight on the American release. (I should note that I think this is one notable exception to the general rule that very similar games on similar platforms should be merged.) — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 17:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
{{
main}}
links to individual articles in the few cases where it's appropriate to do so. (At this point, I'm thinking we might only have one or two cases where this will be true.) —
KieferSkunk (
talk) — 00:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
At long last, the article has been split. See below. :) — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 19:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I've reverted a few unsourced edits recently that claim that Kirby's stone attack causes him to take on the shape of one of Lip's garbage blocks - in other words, that the Kirby games reference Panel de Pon. The most recent of these edits cited a screenshot from what looks to be Super Smash Bros. Melee, so I wanted to address this issue a little further.
A screenshot from SSBM is not a sufficient source for this assertion, for two reasons:
Hope this helps clarify my reverts. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 03:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I'm just dumb, but why merge Panel De Pon with Tetris Attack? Just because they're basically the same game? Well, I also really hate the Tetris Attack version, but anyway...
Telemachus Claudius Rhade 20:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Even though it appears as such, nowhere in the game does it actually say they're the daughters of the original cast. I even checked the Japanese wiki on the subject, and it just says that gaming sources had only speculated of it being the case. 75.152.155.200 20:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest moving this article to "Puzzle League". Tetris Attack is indeed the original title, but Puzzle League is the currently accepted title, due to later versions not being named something like "Dr. Mario & Tetris Attack", "Pokémon Tetris Attack" and "Planet Tetris Attack". Otherwise, let's create an article about the Panel de Pon/Puzzle League series, and let this article discuss about the SNES title. - Parrothead1983 4:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Who on Earth is Bumpty? There are only the other 12 characters in my game... 70.44.147.242 00:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Umm... Bumpty in Tetris Attack is the Penguin. He's Stage 2 in the story mode. Tomatzu ( talk) 00:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
When I looked at this page years ago, it sucked. After waves of changes, it still sucks. I can't help saying "I told you so." I put a lot of effort in back then to make it kick ass. For a while, it did, but a lot of my old edits got chopped out because they were supposedly fancruft. IMHO, though, it's better to have a good page with some bias than a shitty page that's supposedly neutral. To anyone with good enough taste to like this series of games, I respectively suggest you don't waste your time on this article. If you actually say anything good about the game, it'll just get deleted. And who cares about the rest? 24.64.240.230 ( talk) 01:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
"Aside from several new tracks based on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island..." Is this true? Which music specifically is based on Yoshi's Island? I was under the impression all the music was directly ported from Panel De Pon. Poobslag ( talk) 01:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it constructive to have a comprehensive list of characters here? Some articles have it ( Puyo Puyo) but most articles don't ( Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Magical Drop, Puyo Puyo Sun, Meteos)... It doesn't seem like it helps the article. Poobslag ( talk) 21:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I've just finished splitting Panel de Pon out into its own article from this one. It was a lot of work, but I think it'll have been worth it. Both articles need more work, though.
Right now, both articles have the same "Newer Versions" section - this section needs to be tailored to each game's relevant information. Also, if someone has more information on each game's specific releases and market info, that would be great - the infobox and information on each game's releases was all combined together in the original merged article, so I may not have split them apart correctly.
Finally, let's please remember to keep fancruft and listcruft out of these articles. Please see the VGProj Article Guidelines for a run-down on what kinds of information are accepted by consensus and what are not.
Thanks for your patience, folks! — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 19:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a section for the ports and games similar to this such as Pokémon Puzzle League, Tetris Attack/Puzzle Frenzy and so on? -- 75.163.187.227 ( talk) 03:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Crack Attack! is an OpenGL puzzle game similar to the Super Nintendo classic game "Tetris Attack". References:
— Ark25 ( talk) 23:28, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Personally I think Panel de Pon is worthy of its own page as it came first, instead of being a redirect to a sub-header on this one. I'll only revert the merge if there's overwhelming opposition to it though. Deku-Scrub ( talk) 19:24, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
As there does not seem to be active opposition to the merge, I will be re-initializing it unless there are objections. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 17:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
The unaltered version of Panel de Pon will soon be released on Nintendo Switch Online, under that title in all regions. Furthermore, it appears that the name Tetris Attack will no longer be used by Nintendo in any context, due to The Tetris Company not wanting the game to be associated with their brand. I think a title change to Panel de Pon may be apropos, perhaps with Tetris Attack as a separate article. -- 90.227.30.140 ( talk) 23:31, 15 May 2020 (UTC)