| Faces | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Spectrum HoloByte |
| Composer(s) | Ed Bogas |
| Series | Tetris |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh, Amiga, MS-DOS |
| Release | 1990 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
Faces...tris III is a puzzle video game developed by Spectrum HoloByte in 1990 for the Macintosh, Amiga and MS-DOS.
Faces is the fourth game in a series after Tetris , Hatris and Welltris . In Faces, two horizontal slices depicting parts of the faces of people fall side by side from the top of the screen, while the player moves the slices left and right to position them and make faces before they pile up at the bottom of the screen, and the game ends if the pieces stack up to the top of the screen. [1]
The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #168 by Gregg Williams in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewer gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. [1]
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