Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Gumbo (c) 1994 Min.

Gumbo is a "Columns"-style adult puzzle game featuring nude photographic and hand drawn images as a background to the playing field. Columns of three blocks fall from the sky and the player can move the block left or right and shift the order of the blocks column falls. The objective is to match three or more blocks of the same type in vertical, horizontal, or diagonal rows in order to clear them from the play area. As the player clears more blocks the columns begin to descend at a more rapid rate.

As time progresses entire rows of blocks are added to the bottom of the play area. Occasionally after clearing a set of blocks (and more often after setting off chains of removing blocks) the bottom row of blocks will be removed from the play area. If necessary, the player can use a help which will change all of the blocks in the currently falling column into 'P' blocks. When the column lands on the stack of blocks, whichever block it falls on will be cleared from the screen, along with all blocks that match that block. When the bottom row is removed from play a section is added to the progress bar at the bottom of the screen. When the progress bar is filled the stage is complete.

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

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Open Play on this page to start Gumbo. Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Gumbo is filed in our catalog as a 1994 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Puzzle.

Credit line lists Min Corp. as developer.