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In the "4th Gamest Grand Prize" (1990), a feature of the game magazine Gamest, it took 6th place in the grand prize category, 5th for the Best Action Award, 3rd for player popularity and 3rd among the hit games of the year by reader vote, and won a special editorial prize.
In addition, in the Gamest Mook The Best Game (1991), it took 53rd place in a popularity vote by Gamest readers covering all arcade games.
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 Mega Drive FAN,it scored 20.66 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 27 out of 40.
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu, it received a total of 27 out of 40; in Gekkan PC Engine it received 75, 80, 75, 70, and 75, for an average of 75 out of 100; and in Marukatsu PC Engine it received 8, 9, 9, and 8, for a total of 34 out of 40.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 6, 5, 6, and 6, for a total of 23.
Released as 1 of the titles in the Switch SEGA AGES series, which has been running since 2018.
Preinstalled on Sega's Mega Drive reissue console, the Mega Drive Mini 2.
It was also distributed outside Japan under the title SEGA Columns Deluxe, and an iOS version of that was distributed on 2008-8-14, but distribution ended in 2015-5.
In addition, as a cartridge for the Mega Drive-based arcade board MegaPlay released outside Japan, the Mega Drive title (released 1993-10-13) Columns III: Taiketsu!
At first the plan was to port the Mega Drive version of I, but II was chosen because I had already been ported in Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives 3 FINAL STAGE, because there had been few chances to port II until then, and so that players could enjoy "Flash Columns" and "Versus Columns".
It was initially sold preinstalled on the FOMA D902i.
Reviewing the game's appearance in Sega Arcade Classics for the Sega CD, Glenn Rubenstein gave it a B+ rating in Wizard magazine, describing it as "like Tetris but a bit better".
In 2017, Gamesradar ranked the game 40th on its "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time".
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