Which company created both Puzzle De Pon and Puzzle Bobble?
Puzzle De Pon Puzzle De Pon! is a puzzle video game made by the Taito Corporation in 1995. It was initially released for the Neo Geo arcade platform. The game plays similarly to Taito's own "Puzzle Bobble" series. There are some gameplay differences however. Although the player clears the colored balls on the screen by firing balls against other balls of the same colour, the objective of the game is not to clear the screen of balls. It is instead to clear all the balls from around the level shape, referred to as the "drop token". Once this shape is freed, it explodes and the player travels onto the next level.
ThinkFun ThinkFun was founded in 1985 in the basement of husband and wife team Bill Ritchie and Andrea Barthello, with the mission "To translate the brilliant ideas of the craziest mathematicians, engineers and inventors into simple toys that can be appreciated by boys and girls around the world." The 1980s were a difficult time in the toy industry. Retailers were moving away from games, and the Rubik's Cube, which had broken through in the mass market, was losing popularity. In 1990 the retail market transformed and the number of shopping malls began to increase rapidly. Retail-lifestyle stores looking for specialty products discovered ThinkFun’s games and the company grew. From 1992 to 1994, ThinkFun was listed on Inc 500's fastest growing companies list (#299 in 1992, #261 in 1993 and #396 in 1994).