This game has aged slightly worse than Tetris, but not as much as you might think
The core gameplay is as basic as they come, you line up three jewels of the same color, they disappear, new jewels fall in stacks of three that you can reorder before they hit the bottom. Now, has the model aged? Certainly. The presentation, straight from the early days of the Genesis is monochrome and somewhat uninspired and the game makes little effort to provide different challenges. It still is enjoyable, though. Let's face it, Tetris has aged, too, and puzzle games have evolved more than it seems in all these years. Columns has fallen behind somewhat, but it's as much fun as any other little puzzler you might find online. Of course, you don't have to pay 800 points for a Flash clone, but that doesn't make this a bad game by any means.