Red! White! Yellow!
Posted by Albert Lai Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:07:00 GMT
From the land of casual games, I introduce Red White Yellow, a game that follows the best traditions of the "match 6 blocks that are adjacent to each other" genre. If this was some kind of magazine devoted to all things geek instead of TIGSource we’d be running:
| Expired | Tired | Wired |
| Match-3 | Tower Defense | Match N adjacent blocks |
Remember, you heard it here first!
Anyway,
Red White Yellow is a fairly relaxing casual game that I could really see on
the cellphone and/or calculator—though it would have to be rebranded "Black
White Stippled" on the calculator—because of the quick, casual way it works.
The gameplay is fairly simple, but for those who don’t want to sit through a tutorial—The game allows you to clear only one color at a time. Each time you clear a color, there’s a short pause before the "clear color" switches. If you manage to keep clearing colors, the combo counter begins to go up. Fun for those casual fans, and has that clean art style that always reminds me of Chiclets.
Are Chiclets even around anymore? Oh, TIGSource reader base, when did we grow up?
(Source: Tim’s Blog)
We're drawing robots in the forums. 
Cute change on the whole match thing, but the game wasn’t exactly working for me. The “Red” button was highlighted, but was actually matching white.
I actually didn’t think it’d be any good, but it’s a neat game. At first I thought it was just predefined sound effects playing after matches. But instead, it’s actually parts of a song that are playing. The songs are rather repetitive mind you, but when you get far enough in a song, they change it up, to eventually changing entirely to a different song (samurai, to Indian bird theme). Certainly a “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” sort of situation here.
You could also list the most cloned game type of recent times under “Sired”.
MMM… Chiclets. Yeah, they’re still around. Especially in bank gum machines.
I’m not sure if I’d call them songs. At least for the first section they’re just singing “red”, “white”, “yellow” over and over again in Japanese (aka, shiro, kiiro) . Changing up the match sounds is definitely a neat twist, though. I got as far as the train theme.