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In the Cross Review in the game magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 30 out of 40, earning a place in the Silver Hall of Fame. In Monthly PC Engine it received scores of 80, 85, 80, 85, and 85, for an average of 83. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by PC Engine FAN, its rating was as shown below, at 21.75 out of 30.

This score also placed it 184th among all PC Engine titles (485 titles in total, as of 1993).

In the Cross Review in the game magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 25 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Mega Drive FAN, its rating was as shown below, at 16.97 out of 30.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 27 out of 40, In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 18.1 out of 30, as shown below.

In the "Cross Review" in the game magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 20 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, its rating was as shown below, at 17.9 out of a maximum of 30.

In a 1990 interview, he said he wanted to "produce something playable, compact and relatively quick to develop".

Atari Games first released Klax for arcades in February 1990, with Namco releasing the game in Japan a few months later, and soon called it a "major arcade hit".

A 1999 press release called it Midway's "tic-tac tile puzzle game".

Julian Rignall reviewed the Atari Lynx version for CVG Magazine in January 1991, saying "the game is simple, but very, very addictive" and giving a rating of 93 out of 100.

Klax was originally released in February 1990 as an arcade follow-up to Tetris (1989), about which Atari Games had been in a legal dispute.

Atari Games first released Klax for arcades in February 1990, with Namco releasing the game in Japan a few months later, and soon called it a "major arcade hit".

It was reissued in Midway Arcade Treasures, a 2003 compilation for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC.