[3] Block Mania was designed by Richard Halliwell, with artwork by Dave Andrews, Chris Baker, Colin Dixon, and Brett Ewins, and published by Games Workshop in 1987.

[3] More rules and tiles titled Block Mania: Happy Hour were published in the October 1987 edition of White Dwarf.

[2] Richard Halliwell reviewed Block Mania for White Dwarf #93, and stated that "Eliminating as many of the neighbours as possible helps.

This seemed like a totally splendid notion in its own right, so the rules were designed to be as simple and unobstructive as possible, while keeping the game going at a suitably fast pace.

"[1] In the December 1987 edition of Casus Belli (Issue #42), Pierre Lejoeux thought that the Block Mania rules "perfectly capture the atmosphere of the comic strip."