Kainan

There are marbles of up to four colors on the board. You have to remove them all. The marbles will vanish when there are at least three of the same color in a row. You can move them under rules that are fairly intuitive: essentially you can do what you could do in real life too. In the screenshot above, you can take the bottom left green marble and put it in the bottom right space, pushing the bottom row one to the left. In this case, all the marbles in the bottom half will vanish. It is one of the beginner levels after all.

One by one, the levels become more complex and difficult. And when you're done with all twenty levels, you can start designing your own. They are stored in a simple format in KAINAN.STG, a simple text file.

Takashi Miura wrote a sort of sequel, Kainan2, but it's not a puzzle game, but a Galaga-style shooter.

Steckbrief

• Author: Takashi Miura
• Translation: Hitoshi Ozawa
• Year: 1994
• Country of Origin:
• Needs: MTNEWS.DLL

Download

• Kainan (90kB, LZH)