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The Jelly Bean Factory

A DOS game where players must clear the board by aligning jelly beans. Coloured blocks, or jelly beans fall from the top of the screen. Each bean has three coloured balls in it and the player must position…

8 November 1993

The Jelly Bean Factory is a video game, released 8 November 1993 on DOS.

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What The Jelly Bean Factory is

The Jelly Bean Factory was released in 1993. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A DOS game where players must clear the board by aligning jelly beans. Coloured blocks, or jelly beans fall from the top of the screen. Each bean has three coloured balls in it and the player must position them so that when they hit the bottom of the screen they make rows of three or more of the same colour. The colour sequence of each bean can be altered as it falls, there are reject beans that are hard to remove and there are clearing beans that remove all beans that match the first colour they make contact with. The game is controlled either by the keyboard or by a keyboard/joystick combination. It has optional sound, a high score table, four levels of difficulty, nine levels, and other…
Description from the publisher · source

What it launched against

The Jelly Bean Factory launched on 8 November 1993, within three weeks of Sam & Max Hit the Road and Disney's Aladdin.

Released around the same time: Sam & Max Hit the Road, Disney's Aladdin.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Quick answers

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When did The Jelly Bean Factory come out?
The Jelly Bean Factory was released on 8 November 1993 for DOS.