Brick Buster

Brick Buster is a 1994 puzzle game developed by Braintree Software and published by SEGA.

Gameplay
Brick Buster is a hybrid between Tetris and Columns, and shares both of their principals. You have to line up falling blocks into rows (though unlike Tetris they can come in as little as three to two pieces. The bricks have certain patterns, if you line up four, or the brick matches with one next to it, you can destroy it and clear space. You can get power-ups to stop the bricks from falling so you can get to the matches faster, with three stops already being available.

Through codes, you can unlock features, such as a woman who'd slowly strip naked for every level you clear.

Ports
Brick Buster is notable, in that it had received ports to every mainstream SEGA console (the original was released on the Genesis, Game Gear, SEGA CD and 32X) while the ensuing sequel and Brick Buster World Tour received initial releases on the SEGA Saturn and SEGA Dreamcast.

Reception
Brick Buster was initially written off as a copy of Tetris and Columns. In spite of that, the game was praised for its simplistic yet addictive gameplay, and criticized for its derivative nature.