Flash Point is a game developed and published by Sega for Japanese arcades. The goal of the game is to clear all the flashing blocks from the field in a series of stages.
A Mega Drive version was planned, but was canceled after the release of Tetris for the Mega Drive was cancelled. It was added to Sega Ages Tetris Collection, along with the aforementioned Mega Drive Tetris. The Mega Drive version of Flash Point has a doubles mode, allowing two players to work together to clear extra wide stages.
¹: The DAS also applies to holding down in this game: Just tapping down moves the piece down exactly one block, but holding down for longer than 12 frames results in the piece soft dropping as usual.
The aim of Flash Point is to clear all the flashing blocks from the screen on each stage.
Speed Levels
Level
Easy
Normal
Hard
Hardest
0
24
16
12
12
1
20
14
10
10
2
18
12
8
8
3
16
10
6
6
4
14
8
5
5
5
12
6
4
4
6
10
4
3
3
7
8
3
2
2
8
6
2
1
1
9
4
1
1
1
10
12
10
8
8
11
10
8
6
6
12
8
6
4
4
13
6
4
2
2
14
4
2
1
1
15+
1
1
1
1
While the speed curve is the same as in Tetris (Sega), whenever you clear a stage, your level will be decreased by 1, until 12 minutes of playtime have past. Thefore, clearign stages rapidly and with a minimum of line clears makes it easier.
Enabling 2 cell move mode in the DIP switches causes blocks to fall two lines per frame once 25 minutes have been played on the same credit, acting as a killscreen mechanism. The level caps at 99.
Scoring
Scoring is surprisingly different compared to more regular Tetris games. Line clears give no points at all, regardless of what level or stage you are playing on. Instead, your main way of getting points is by clearing the stages as fast as possible. This Bonus starts at 1000 and increases every 4 Stage numbers:
Stages
"Bonus" points
001-004
1000
005-008
2000
009-012
3000
013-016
4000
017-020
5000
021-024
6000
025-028
7000
029-032
8000
033-036
9000
037-040
10000
041-044
11000
045-048
12000
049-052
13000
053-056
14000
057-060
15000
061-064
16000
065-068
17000
069-072
18000
073-076
19000
077-080
20000
081-084
21000
085-088
22000
089-092
23000
093-096
24000
097-100
25000
The Bonus points decrease over time, depending on your current level. They do not decrease during ARE and Line Clear animations.
If you set a new fastest time for clearing a stage on the machine, you will get the full amount of the Bonus points of the stage alongside your normal Bonus points. Therefore, some people playing on their own copy of the game like to wipe the save data of the game with each new run, so they can maximize the amount of points they get, as the best times will be deleted and you can play as slowly as you'd like to still get this extra bonus.
Stages
There are a total of 100 Stages in Flash Point, 90 of which can be selected from the start. The last 10 stages are "Bonus" stages which you can play if you beat previous stages.
Gems are denoted with a circle.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage 11
Stage 12
Stage 13
Stage 14
Stage 15
Stage 16
Stage 17
Stage 18
Stage 19
Stage 20
Stage 21
Stage 22
Stage 23
Stage 24
Stage 25
Stage 26
Stage 27
Stage 28
Stage 29
Stage 30
Stage 31
Stage 32
Stage 33
Stage 34
Stage 35
Stage 36
Stage 37
Stage 38
Stage 39
Stage 40
Stage 41
Stage 42
Stage 43
Stage 44
Stage 45
Stage 46
Stage 47
Stage 48
Stage 49
Stage 50
Stage 51
Stage 52
Stage 53
Stage 54
Stage 55
Stage 56
Stage 57
Stage 58
Stage 59
Stage 60
Stage 61
Stage 62
Stage 63
Stage 64
Stage 65
Stage 66
Stage 67
Stage 68
Stage 69
Stage 70
Stage 71
Stage 72
Stage 73
Stage 74
Stage 75
Stage 76
Stage 77
Stage 78
Stage 79
Stage 80
Stage 81
Stage 82
Stage 83
Stage 84
Stage 85
Stage 86
Stage 87
Stage 88
Stage 89
Stage 90
Stage 91
Stage 92
Stage 93
Stage 94
Stage 95
Stage 96
Stage 97
Stage 98
Stage 99
Stage 100
Trivia
The preview image for stage 99 is wrong. The preview shows a neutral face while the actual stage is a smiling face. It's possible that the neutral face was a real stage in an earlier prototype version of the game.
