2026-09-02 · retro-review
Puzznic (1989) — The Credits Screen That Never Existed, and the Five Names Found in the ROM Decades Later
In October 1989, Taito released the arcade puzzle game Puzznic, sliding identical blocks together to clear them, with no randomness and every board hand-designed, and ports reaching nearly every 8/16-bit platform of the era. Its developers were never credited on screen; more than three decades later, ROM analysis uncovered five names hidden inside the arcade board.
