Plotting (video game)

Plotting is a tile-matching puzzle video game published by Taito in 1989. It is called Flipull (フリップル, Furippuru) in Japan as well as in versions for the Famicom and Game Boy, and Plotting in versions for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, GX4000 and ZX Spectrum. All are based on an arcade game which is known as Flipull (フリップル, Furippuru) in Japan and Plotting elsewhere. The game bears strong graphical and some gameplay similarities to Puzznic.

Flipull/Plotting
Developer(s)Taito
Publisher(s)Taito
Platform(s)Arcade, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, GX4000, ZX Spectrum, Famicom, Game Boy
ReleaseArcade
  • WW: 1989
Famicom
  • JP: December 15th, 1989
Game Boy
  • JP: March 16th, 1990
  • NA: April 1990
Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, GX400, ZX Spectrum
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single player, 2 player Versus
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemTaito L System hardware
CPUZ80 (@ 6 Mhz)
SoundYM2203 (@ 3 Mhz)
DisplayRaster, horizontal orientation, 320 x 224 pixels, 256 colors, 60.00 Hz refresh rate

The game was ranked the 23rd best game of all time by Amiga Power.[1]

In 2005, Plotting was re-released on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and the PC as part of Taito Legends.

References

  1. Amiga Power magazine issue 0, Future Publishing, May 1991
Arcade screenshot
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