Jupiter’s Picross puzzle game series is getting two new collaboration releases this week, and they’re ones that any fans of ’90s arcade games will want to pay attention to. Picross S Capcom Classics Edition and Picross S SNK Classics & NeoGeo Edition are both due out on Nintendo Switch this Friday, 28 November, priced at NZ$29.70 each.
The new games follow the same format as previous Picross S games, with 150 puzzles each for regular Picross and Mega Picross modes, 5 Clip Picross (large puzzles made up of 40 smaller puzzles each), 30 Colour Picross, and 5 extra-large Extra Picross. New for the Capcom and SNK editions are timed puzzles (30 per game), art galleries, and new grid guidelines aimed at making it easier to select squares while streaming or sharing content on social media.
Picross is the brand name for Jupiter’s series of nonogram puzzle games. Nonograms are logic puzzles in which players use numbered clues alongside the edges of a grid to determine which cells should be filled in, eventually producing a picture when the puzzle is fully solved.
The Picross S special editions extend this idea to images based on the collab property—the Capcom edition’s puzzles produce images from over 40 classic Capcom games, and the SNK edition’s puzzles cover 50 SNK games.
The Picross series began with Mario’s Picross for Game Boy, spanning dozens of games—both licensed and non-licensed—in the decades since. Picross S is a sub-series focused on Nintendo Switch releases, covering nine original games and a handful of licensed special editions: Sega Mega Drive and Master System, Namco classics, Doraemon, Kemono Friends, and The Rising of the Shield Hero.
The original Mario’s Picross and Mario’s Super Picross for Super Famicom are both available on Switch as part of Nintendo Switch Online’s classic game library.
