According to a press release distributed today, Nintendo is set to release a new puzzle game entitled Pokemon Trozei. The title is being described as a “slide-action puzzle game” where players use the touch screen to align titles and clear them from the screen. Four tiles aligned, either vertically or horizontally, is a “Trozei” - hence the title of the game. We’re looking forward to going hands-on with this one. It should be fun and make for another solid title on Nintendo’s handheld. Look for this one to hit stores on March 6, 2006. Full release after the jump.

New Pokemon Puzzle Game Lets Players Slide Into Fun

You’ve got the slide rule, the water slide, the slide projector, the slide guitar and the Electric Slide.  But none of them is nearly as fun as the new slide-action puzzle game for Nintendo DS(TM) called Pokemon(R) Trozei.

Nintendo systems have always been home to great puzzle games, and the additional abilities of Nintendo DS add a new dimension to game play.  Players use the touch screen to slide Pokemon puzzle pieces side to side or up and down.  Lining up four in a row (vertically or horizontally) makes a “Trozei” and clears those pieces from the screen. When players create
continuous Trozeis by lining up three in a row, then two in a row, they will clear the screen faster and increase their score.

Pokemon Trozei features two single-player modes and two two-player modes.  As an extra bonus for Pokemon fans, players also try to add each of the more than 380 Pokemon featured in the game to their Trozei Lists.  Pokemon(R) Trozei launches March 6.