Zoop

released on Feb 01, 1995

Fast-paced action-puzzle game where the player eliminates colored shapes that are approaching his alter ego, another colored shape, before they reach the top, ala Tetris. In order to eliminate the other shapes, you must point your piece at it and 'fire'. If the shape is the same color as your piece, the shape is eliminated, as well as all of the shapes of the same color behind it, until your piece hits a piece of a different color. If the shape is of a different color, or it is hit when collecting a line of similar shapes, your piece exchanges colors with the shape.


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any fellow Zoopers out there: choose the PS1 or Saturn version! gameplay is far smoother and the dinky wannabe-educational-point-and-click music is superseded by sweaty minimal techno grooves.
a four-way intersection of color-matching that gets perhaps a bit too overwhelming a bit too quickly as squadrons of abstract shapes crawl, hungering for triangle soufflé. a simple audiovisual experience that locks me in a trance those rare moments I find myself In The Zone. it’s Zoopin’ time!!

This game is so fucking silly and puzzly and its whacky wahoo ! I love Zooping with my friends and family ! Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop Zoop

Zoop was pretty much everywhere for some reason, and yet no one really seemed to talk about it.
On one hand this is "just another puzzle game".
On the other hand... it's a pretty good one!

I was off my rocker giving this game 2.5 stars
This is one of the best classic puzzle games ever made

By itself, not really interesting in terms of gameplay - it lacks a feeling of accomplishment or pleasure and just gets boring soon enough. But it's an interesting time capsule of a part of 90s culture (especially that culture of trying intentionally to be the next big thing), complete with cheesy 90s jazz and/or techno (there's a lot of versions of this game) and zany shape design could be on a weird shirt.

I want to play this. It looks like the 5th gen version of Klax, since both were very 90s and on every single system almost at the time.