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Columns Crown
System(s): Game Boy Advance
Publisher: Sega (Japan, Europe) , THQ (US)
Developer: WOW Entertainment , WillLink (main program, general graphics, sound direction[1] )
Distributor: Infogrames (Europe)
Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable
Genre: Puzzle
Number of players: 1-2
Release
Date
RRP
Code
JP
2001-12-13[7]
¥4,800 (5,040 )4,800 (5,040 )[7]
AGB-P-ACGJ AGB-ACGJ-JPN
US
2002-01-09[5]
$39.9939.99[6]
AGB-P-ACGE AGB-ACGE-USA
DE
2002
AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-NOE
ES
2002
AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-ESP
FR
2002
AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-FRA
IT
2002
AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-ITA
UK
2001-12-07[2] [3]
£32.9932.99[4]
AGB-P-ACGP AGB-ACGP-UKV
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Columns Crown (コラムス クラウン) is a puzzle game developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It was relased as part of the Columns series of games. A working title for this game was Advance Columns (アドバンス コラムス).
Like the original Columns and its many derivatives, the object of Columns Crown is to match up jewels either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally in groups of three or more. Very little is added to this Game Boy Advance adaption that was not seen in previous varients of Columns , other than a story and revised graphics. There is also a multiplayer option played via the Game Boy Advance Link Cable.
2005's 2 in 1: Sonic Pinball Party & Columns Crown and 2008's 2 Games in 1: Columns Crown & ChuChu Rocket! also contains this game.
Production credits
Executive Producer: Rikiya Nakagawa
Director: Masamoto Morita
Programmers: Akira Oomi , Kazuhiko Maeda
CG Designers: Naohiro Ninomiya , Mikio Irinaka , Risa Kawasumi, Tomohisa Tsunoda, Noriyuki Kuraba, Mamoru Ikeuchi , Katsunori Matsui
Sound Director: Yuji Ogawa
Assistant Directors: Masaharu Imaoka, Kyoko Asoh
MC: Nanae Kenda
Publicity: Noriko Yamada , Takuya Tsunomura
Translation: Klayton Vorlick , Gerardo Sprigg
Special Thanks: Masaharu Terabata , Jun Kaga
Original Game ©SEGA
©WOW Entertainment Inc. /SEGA , 2001
Source : In-game credits [8]
VP of Product Development: Jin Shimazaki
Localization Manager: Osamu Shibamiya
Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
Lead Tester: Chester Lee
Assistant Lead Tester: Derek Wong
Testers: Davidson Talag, Alex Vaughan, Neil Sorens, Ramin Rouya, Eric Ling, Amy-Geene Williamson
Group Director of Marketing: Mike Fischer
Product Manager: Rich Briggs
Associate Product Manager: Noah Musler
Creative Services Director: Bob Schonfisch
Creative Services Designer: Vicki Morawietz
Public Relations: Gwen Marker , Teri Higgins
Special Thanks: Peter Moore , Chris Gilbert , Jane Thompson , Izora Garcia de Lillard , John Amirkhan , Joe Aragones, Shinobu Shindo , Makoto Nishino , Yoshihiro Sakuta , Kyoko Drumheller, Sandy Castagnola
Source : US manual
Magazine articles
Main article: Columns Crown/Magazine articles .
Artwork
Physical scans
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Division by zero.
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Game Boy Advance, UK
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System
Hash
Size
Build Date
Source
Comments
✔
CRC32
330a0975
MD5
d96e8659db64595a5ee7234145ebdc66
SHA-1
9d3982d3e42bf1e2bae78c2965184629383f7247
8MB
Cartridge (EU)
✔
CRC32
a592f7df
MD5
1f5a23d069bf42a1f3131e8c5a574efb
SHA-1
70a7229a57f4a296a661136e07e23668011310bf
8MB
Cartridge (JP)
?
CRC32
6242ffb2
MD5
38f369f1ca0872790995943e8cb4a877
SHA-1
f11c7a225524d418907e42666b33649b585fb6d4
8MB
Cartridge (US)
External links
Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Game Boy Advance (archive)
Nintendo catalogue pages: JP , US (archive)
References
↑ https://www.will-link.co.jp/works.htm
↑ http://chipsworld.co.uk/DetProd.asp?ProductCode=5121 (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-30 08:14)
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/656038/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-12 14:26)
↑ 4.0 4.1 GBX , "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-06), page 29
↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=807 (Wayback Machine: 2003-06-19 16:39)
↑ File:SegaTHQGBAArtAssets ColumnsCrown ColumnsGBAOneSheet.pdf
↑ 7.0 7.1 http://sega.jp/gba/columnsc/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-12-18 10:20)
↑ File:Columns Crown GBA credits.pdf
↑ 576 Konzol , "Március 2002" (HU; 2002-xx-xx), page 63
↑ Advance , "2/2002" (DE; 2002-xx-xx), page 46
↑ Advance , "Spring 2002" (UK; 2002-xx-xx), page 64
↑ Cube , "Issue Three" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 114
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly , "March 2002" (US; 2002-02-06), page 146
↑ GameNOW , "December 2001" (US; 2001-11-13), page 34
↑ GamePro , "January 2002" (US; 200x-xx-xx), page 67
↑ GameBoy Magazyn , "Kwiecień 2002" (PL; 2002-xx-xx), page 20
↑ Game Informer , "December 2001" (US; 2001-1x-xx), page 120
↑ MAN!AC , "02/2002" (DE; 2002-01-02), page 86
↑ NGC Magazine , "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 55
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine , "February 2002" (UK; 2002-01-15), page 36
↑ Nintendo Power , "March 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 136