Columns [Sega Classics Arcade Collection 5-in1] (Sega CD - US) Longplay

About the game:
Columns (Japanese: コラムス, Hepburn: Koramusu) is a match-three puzzle video game released by Jay Geertsen in 1989. Designed for the Motorola 68000-based HP 9000 running HP-UX,[9][10][11] it was ported to Mac and MS-DOS[9] before being released commercially by Sega who ported it to arcades and then to several Sega consoles. The game was subsequently ported to other home computers, including the Atari ST.

Sega ported the arcade game to the Mega Drive/Genesis console. This version of the game was nearly identical to the original arcade game.[9]

In Japan, Game Machine listed Columns on their April 15, 1990 issue as being the eighth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.[28] It went on to be Japan's fourth highest-grossing arcade game of 1990 (below Capcom's Final Fight and Sega's Tetris and Super Monaco GP)[29] and third highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1991 (below Capcom's Street Fighter II and Sega's Tetris).[30]

Reviewing the game's appearance in Sega Arcade Classics for the Sega CD, Glenn Rubenstein gave it a B+ rating in Wizard magazine, describing it as "like Tetris but a bit better".[25] Mega placed the game at number 34 in their "Top Mega Drive Games of All Time".[31] In 2017, Gamesradar ranked the game 40th on its "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time".[32]

Source: Wikipedia

DEVELOPER: Sega
PUBLISHER: Sega
RELEASE YEAR: 1990
GENRE: Puzzle