Puyo Pop Fever
| Puyo Pop Fever | |
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North American GameCube cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Sonic Team |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Takashi Yuda |
| Producer(s) | Yuji Naka |
| Artist(s) | Yuji Uekawa |
| Composer(s) | Hideki Abe |
| Series | Puyo Puyo |
| Engine | RenderWare (PS2, GC, Xbox) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Windows, Mac OS X, Pocket PC, Palm OS, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Arcade, Android, iOS |
| Release | November 2003
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | NAOMI |
Puyo Pop Fever is a 2003 puzzle video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It is the fifth main installment in the Puyo Puyo puzzle game series and the second Puyo Puyo game to be programmed by Sonic Team after Puyo Pop (which was released just after the series' original developer, Compile, went bankrupt). This was the start of what can be considered a reboot of the Puyo Puyo franchise, with this entry's plot revolving around Professor Accord losing her flying cane.
Sega, which acquired the series' character rights from Compile in 1998, and eventually the full rights in 2001, published all the Japanese releases of the game, and also published the arcade and GameCube versions internationally. The game was scarcely released internationally, and certain versions were released by other publishers in those areas.
The GameCube and Nintendo DS versions were released in North America, with Atlus handling publishing duties for the latter. Europe received both versions plus the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, and PlayStation Portable versions. The Dreamcast version, the last first-party release for the console, was exclusively released in Japan on February 24, 2004, nearly three years after the system was discontinued.
There were also plans to release the Xbox version in North America but the idea was later scrapped.
The GameCube, Xbox, and PS2 versions used 3D models for the Puyos instead of the sprites used in all other versions.