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Snood

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Also known as
Snood Advance

Clear the board by shooting and matching colored characters in this puzzle game.

Snood was originally released for Macintosh in 1996. The Game Boy Advance version, titled Snood Advance, was released in 2001 by Destination Software.


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About Snood

Snood for the Game Boy Advance is a handheld adaptation of a shareware puzzle game, sharing core mechanics with titles like Puzzle Bobble. The objective involves clearing a screen filled with colored creatures called Snoods by firing matching colors from a cannon. Groups of three or more identical adjacent Snoods are eliminated, and any pieces left unsupported afterward drop and are also cleared.

Several single-player modes are included. The challenging Puzzle mode provides 24 unique pre-arranged layouts that demand specific solutions. Time Attack! introduces a distinct pressure, as the play field automatically descends at regular intervals unless the player triggers a chain of falling Snoods to pause it. Classic and Journey modes carry over from the computer original, with the former offering five difficulty settings and starting configurations of two to six rows.

This version also features a competitive link cable mode. Here, players compete to clear their own fields, with successful eliminations filling a meter. Once full, this meter adds an extra row of Snoods to the opponent's screen. The game's presentation received a graphical overhaul for the portable system, and its mechanics are adjusted for the lower screen resolution.

Snood Screenshots

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Welcome to Snood
One or Two players can take part in the Snood action. Be sure to choose what kind of game you want in Options first
Choose your game type and character in Options
Pick your character
Your character has just been spit out of the Snood Factory
As pieces are destroyed, you can see the exploding animation shown in the center
Winning is always good
If you win, your character gets to be on a pedestal
If you lose, your character gets squashed
The puzzle version has a set of puzzles that have specific ways to solve them, tho you can just hack away at them. Keep playing until you lose.
Journey takes you through all the difficulty levels one-by-one