*stiffens, twitches nose, and starts hurriedly opening Wikipedia tabs* Was Cordelia in Panel De Pon a riff on The World from Magical Drop?????
OK so… they were only released 4 months apart, so it's possible but highly unlikely.
By the way, here's how to find when in the year of 1995 Magical Drop 1 for arcade was released:
❌Wikipedia
❌MobyGames
✔️MAME title bar
I like how Panel De Pon and Petal Crash both make it clear that pushing more tiles is basically the versus puzzle game equivalent of Magic: The Gathering's "draw a card", in the sense that you win by doing it as much as possible.