
The colorful creatures, whatever they are, fall onto the screen in pairs of two, where you can rotate them into either horizontal or vertical alignment before they settle on the stack below.

Only they're called beans to Robotnik, and Kirby calls them ghosts. Both are U.S.-localized versions of a Japanese title called Puyo Puyo, a "falling block" competitive puzzle game that's based on lining up four like-colored blobs to eliminate them from play. And different presentations, and music, and from different past console platforms – but, cutting through the surface layers to find out what's below, the two titles are essentially the very same experience. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine are the same game.
