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Instruction booklet · April 1996

The Brainies

Puzzle1 playerESRB E

The story

This puzzle game has 101 levels, in which you have to guide a varying number of Brainies of four different colors onto a spot that matches their color. You control a cross-hair, and press fire while over a Brainy to take or give up control of its motion. Running out of time costs you a life.

Specifications

Released: April 1996
Developer: Titus Software
Publisher: Titus Software
Players: 1
Genre: Puzzle
Rating: ESRB E
Series: Skweeks series
Themes: Kids
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

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Vol. 6 · No. 242Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of April 5, 1996

Apr. 6

Major League Soccer begins its inaugural season with a match between the San Jose Clash and D.C. United in San Jose, California. It is the first top-level men's soccer league in the United States since the collapse of the North American Soccer League in 1984.

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