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developed by Spectrum HoloByte in 1990 for the

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Gameplay

''Faces'' is fourth in a series after ''

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Welltris ''Welltris'' is a puzzle video game, developed by Doca and licensed to Bullet-Proof Software. It is an official game in the ''Tetris'' series. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc., for Spectrum HoloByte, and by Infogrames. It was released for M ...

''. In ''Faces'', horizontal slices of two persons' faces fall side by side from the top of the screen, and the player must position them before they hit bottom. The player maneuvers the slices left and right to make faces as they stack up in piles, preferably with all the pieces from the same person's face. When the pieces stack up to the top of the screen, the game is over.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1991 in ''

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'' #168 by Gregg Williams in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewer gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.

Reviews

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- Sep, 1990

References

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