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No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!

1998 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11322815 ↗
Source-derived summary

No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! is a puzzle video game developed by Artdink and released for the PlayStation in 1998. The user controls one of five anthropomorphic dominoes, placing other dominoes in rows that will successfully topple while avoiding obstacles and working under a time limit.

Gameplay

The game includes six stages: a casino, a grocery store, a family home, a local park, an amusement park, and a city. Each stage is set up like a racetrack as Mr. Domino will return to the starting point after each lap. The player can make as many laps as needed to clear a given stage. When the level is cleared, the player will proceed to the next stage.

Once a stage starts, Mr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!” as 1998 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1998-01-08, 1998-11-30—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Stop, Domino and video can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1998 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11322815. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.