Kinetic Connection

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Kinetic Connection
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Developer:
Distributor: Samsung (KR)
Genre: Puzzle[2][3]

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Game Gear
JP
¥3,8003,800 G-3401
Sega Game Gear
KR
GH1007JG

Kinetic Connection (キネティック コネクション) is a Sega Game Gear puzzle game. It appears to be part of a series of games by Sadato Taneda but the relationship is unknown.

The game has a cameo from Opa-Opa of Fantasy Zone fame, who also features prominently on the cover art.

Gameplay

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Game 1

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Game 2

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Game 3

The objective of the game is to reconstruct a scrambled video loop by swapping and rotating tiles. Tiles can be flipped on both the X- and Y-axis in order to fit together. Players can choose from seven different puzzles and can view the complete picture before scrambling it. There are three different ways to play the game, which affect the way the tiles are moved.

The player controls a cursor with the D-pad that can be used to select tiles. There are also buttons around the frame of the picture that correspond to an entire column or row. Tiles can be selected and buttons can be pressed with 2. Flipping tiles is done by toggling the ◀▶ (for flipping a tile horizontally) or ▲▼ (for flipping a tile vertically) buttons below the picture with 1 and then selecting a tile, column, or row. The flip mode can be deactivated afterwards in the same manner.

The game has a timer to keep track of how long it takes the player to complete a puzzle and uses a battery backup to record the top times for each puzzle and mode.

Game 1

In this mode, the player can select any tile. When two tiles are selected, their positions are swapped. Entire columns or rows can also be selected using the buttons around the frame; when two columns or two rows are selected, their entire contents are swapped.

Game 2

This mode is similar to a sliding puzzle. One of the tiles, which the player chooses before beginning the game, is omitted, leaving an empty spot to which another tile can be moved. The player can select any tile adjacent to the empty spot, which moves the selected tile to that position. Selecting other tiles has no effect, and the column and row buttons are only used for flipping.

Game 3

In this mode, the player cannot select and move tiles individually but can instead rotate entire columns and rows, somewhat like a Rubik's Cube. Pressing a button around the frame moves the entire line of tiles in that direction, with the tile at one end moving to the other end.

Puzzles

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Cockpit
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Opa-Opa
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Pentan
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Climber
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Pipeline
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Cube
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Monolith
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Production credits

  • majima
Source:
Internal ROM text[4]


Magazine articles

Main article: Kinetic Connection/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in (JP) #1991-03: "March 1991" (1991-02-08)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
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Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
(JP) NTSC-J
65
[5]
(UK) PAL
72
[6]
(JP) NTSC-J
70
[7]
(UK)
78
[8]
(UK) PAL
72
[9]
(JP) NTSC-J
65
[10]
Sega Game Gear
70
Based on
6 reviews

Kinetic Connection

Game Gear, JP
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Cover
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Cart
Game Gear, KR
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Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Game Gear
 ?
CRC32 4af7f2aa
MD5 3393b5a16edd56194b1bb869e6324cb1
SHA-1 7447e0ad5e8e14c3ae05a274d393ca34de044855
128kB Cartridge (JP) 8kB backup

References


Kinetic Connection

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