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Game Overview

Color Lines is one of those games that looks simple until you're three moves in and suddenly realize the board's about to explode with balls. You start by moving colored orbs around a grid, trying to line up five in a row—sounds easy, right? Then three new balls drop after every move, and suddenly you're sweating over whether to go for that diagonal purple line or block the red cluster forming in the corner.

The MS-DOS version has that perfect bare-bones charm—no fancy animations, just a grid and your impending doom. I love how it turns into this weird mix of strategy and panic, where planning three moves ahead still might not save you when the screen's 80% full. It's the kind of game you play thinking "just one round" and then it's 2 AM.

If you miss that era of straightforward, brutally addictive puzzle games, this one's still a killer time. The colors might be basic, but the tension is real.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".