

1993 · Namco · Falling block puzzle · Puzzle
Emeraldia
Nintendo console exclusive
Emeraldia is a puzzle arcade game released by Namco in 1993 only in Japan.
- Released
- 15 July 1993
- Platforms
- ArcadeNintendo SwitchWii
- Genres
- Falling block puzzlePuzzle
- Developers
- Namco
- Publishers
- NamcoHamster Corporation
- Perspective
- Side view
- Country
- Japan
About
Emeraldia is a 1993 puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was only released in Japan in July 1993. A port for mobile phones was released in 2006. It was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in March 2009. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of the Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in April 2024.
Keywords
- aquatic
- wii virtual console
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game features three modes of play: "Adventure", "Normal", and "Versus". In all three modes, both players must line up blocks of a particular color - and when three blocks have been lined up (vertically), they will crack. Once a fourth block of that same color lands on the three cracked ones, they will all shatter. As for Adventure Mode, the object is to get the trapped sea creatures down to the bottom of the screen and rescue them.
After each ocean has been cleared, the player receives an item which can be activated by pushing the stick up and pressing the button, but each item can only be used once, and only in the ocean that follows the one it was received at the end of. At the end of the "Mystic Ocean", the player must defeat a sea demon named Jamir, by cracking the block he is possessing with his face; he will then go on to possess a different block, and once the blocks he possesses have been cracked six times, he will be defeated. However, the game is not over at this point, as there is still one more stage that has to be cleared (called the "Escape Stage"), where the player must get seven pink dolphins and one blue one (which appear as part of the block groups) down to the bottom of the screen.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Emeraldia as the eighth most popular table arcade game of August 1993.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Ported as
- Arcade Archives: Emeraldia
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Collections3 collections
Publishers
- Namco gamesArcade-based games › Namco proprietary arcade systems
- Namco gamesArcade-based games › Namco proprietary arcade systems
- Virtual Console games for WiiTitles › Virtual Console Arcade
Platform libraries
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