Magical Drop is a 1995 competitive arcade puzzle game created by Data East Corporation. It is the inaugural game of the Magical Drop series. Magical Drop is based on a game called Drop-Drop created by Russ Ltd, a Russian company. The arcade game received an updated version named Magical Drop Plus 1! that features aesthetic improvements and also introduces a "Solo Play" mode. Magical Drop Plus 1! was released in North America and Europe as Chain Reaction; in this version, the puzzle pieces are changed from spherical Drops to various items (such as food or celestial bodies) and the character-unique voice acting is replaced by a single male narrator. All versions of the original arcade game were developed for Data East's "MLC" arcade hardware.
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This is the classic color-matching puzzle game, much like Puyo Puyo or Bust-A-Move if you’ve played those. Except this game is kind-of backwards. The blocks are already there, you have to rearrange them so that there’s at least three of the same color vertically adjacent to eachother. Doing that makes them disappear, and makes your opponent’s stack increase in size. Oh, yeah, there’s a CPU-controlled opponent. And of course when he matches up blocks, YOUR stack grows. Unfortunatley, the CPU is way better than I am at this. So, um, yeah.
This game's art style is pretty good. The mechanics of the game are a bit harder cause they tweaked some things to make it easier in later games, but it's still good regardless. I also notice that I can't go really... fast in this one? There's a bit of input delay, but it's still good regardless.