Out of all the Aleck 64 games, I enjoyed this one the most. It’s a colour matching puzzle game using fruit (which means no colourblind issues), which has an interesting mechanic. You need to match groups of four, but if you match four of your character’s favourite fruit, then your whole board will flip, pushing the bottom tiles to the top.

Once the tiles drop down to the bottom, if there are any groups of three, these will now form a combo, and your area will then flip again, now groups of two will mix. This carries on (scoring any groups of two after each flip), and getting past 4 will trigger a fever and send loads of tiles to the next screen. I was having a ton of fun, but the CPU is a bit relentless – I went from having a clear screen to my entire area being filled due to an insane combo.

Fun

Remake or remaster?

I’d definitely like to see this expanded with a few more modes as a full game.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to play Kuru Kuru Fever