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Honorable Mention - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis, 1993)
I think this was the first puzzle game I ever played, and the style of Puyo Puyo remains one of my favorites. My 2nd favorite block style of puzzle, to another you'll see on the list, but on a good day, I might like Puyo Puyo more. It's fun to set up long strings of combos in advance, onlyfor your opponent to dump garbage on you.... but then you realize that can actually help extend your combo! Or hurt it. sometimes. The bloopy sound effects in this game were also always very appealing, and of course the backdrop of Sonic was a win for me...ok, well there was no Sonic. But the enemies you fight in the "campaign" were all random background robots from the cartoon... the silly one, that is, not the edgier cool one. Two of the main ones you fight were Scratch and Grounder if you remember those guys! But hey, I still liked that show too. So I had some personal interest in these robots. The chatter they smacktalked you between rounds remains legendary. I also played this game with my dad a lot. This game was the driving force for me to get Puyo Puyo Tetris too, a strongly ok game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9g4CeI2V0

Honorable Mention - Untitled Goose Game (Switch, 2019)
HONK!
Charm and creative puzzle together is a strong appeal for me if you couldn't tell. I first played this at Extra Life 2019, with MSG, while almost everyone else in the room knew the deal with this game. Going around simply being a goose is a game experience I never knew I needed, and behold, it was. There is also a great joy in completing a task before knowing what the tasks are. It is fun to just be a jerk. Especially knowing all the jerks you're being a jerk to are way jerkier than you.

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