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.::: So the world went Tetris-crazy when the original GameBoy appeared. But how many people are actually playing it now? And on which platform? Or when was the last time you actually got to move around shapes consisting out of four blocks desperately forming them into lines?

Personally I actually ended up buying Pokémon Tetris for the Pokémon MiNi and Tetris Worlds for GameCube (although the latter has some serious multiplayer issues).

So, does Tetris still live?

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.::: So the world went Tetris-crazy when the original GameBoy appeared. But how many people are actually playing it now? And on which platform? Or when was the last time you actually got to move around shapes consisting out of four blocks desperately forming them into lines?

The problem is that there hasn't actually been a better version of Tetris than the one for the Gameboy. Over the weekend I visited a friend who dug out her original Gameboy with Tetriss and I played it for the first time in 10 years and was immediately reminded why I was dissappointed by every other Tetris implementation I've ever played. It simply works better than anything other version for reasons which I can't put my finger on.

Plus the link cable mode is genius.

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.::: Tetris DX is a good version. Especially since you can play against other CPU opponents created out of the stats of human players (battling yourself can be very tense). Just a shame it doesn't have the original Tetris BGM.

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.::: Tetris DX is a good version. Especially since you can play against other CPU opponents created out of the stats of human players (battling yourself can be very tense). Just a shame it doesn't have the original Tetris BGM.

I have to admit I never played Tetris DX. I did play Tetris Worlds though and that sucked donkey's privates.

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I never really got into Tetris DX. It just didn't seem right somehow. Perhaps it was the lack of decent BGM, the horrid colour pallette or the fact that it was much easier than the original but it just never did anything for me. I got rid of it eventually.

The best Tetris update was The New Tetris on the N64. Line instead of score count, hypnotic background music and a new scoring system where if you got enough block together of the same type they would go either gold or silver which could then lead to a massive score.

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I love tetris, and always have, and always will. I guess I'm a Tetrisexual.

I don't play it too much though, as I'm always worried I'll get sucked in again. And I'll start having nightmares about... the fear.

But I'd like to add my support to The New Tetris on N64. It's easily the best version since the GB one and maybe, just maybe, it's better.

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.::: Tetris DX is a good version. Especially since you can play against other CPU opponents created out of the stats of human players (battling yourself can be very tense). Just a shame it doesn't have the original Tetris BGM.

You must be thinking of a different version other than DX. It's 1-player only unless you link up with another GameBoy.

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Tetris is one of those games I'll always pick up and play once in a while.

Currently, I still favour Power Tetris on the CPC, purely because I have it. And it offers an excellent two-player mode on one screen - though I'm sure four player PC Tetris games are out there.

Welltris, the official sequel, isn't half bad either.

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.::: Tetris DX is a good version. Especially since you can play against other CPU opponents created out of the stats of human players (battling yourself can be very tense). Just a shame it doesn't have the original Tetris BGM.

You must be thinking of a different version other than DX. It's 1-player only unless you link up with another GameBoy.

.::: Actually in DX you can choose vs. COM and then choose a profile to play against. You have three available player-profiles on the cartridge. I remember it because through this I could even play against my girlfriend even though she was not there. Even now it's all over I still have her Tetris-soul locked into my cartridge!

MWUAHAHAHAHA!

Ehrm.. sorry.

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.::: I wanted to get the Live version as well, but Worlds has a very strange concept of multiplayer. You can't get the classic 'till death' battles. They all seem to be races.

Might pick it up if it drops in price even more. :wub:

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Personally I actually ended up buying Pokémon Tetris for the Pokémon MiNi

I'm still trying to track this down.

you'll have to look to Europe then as it wasnt released in the UK.

And as for Xbox Live Tetris...i think you can play "to the death" its called Knock Out mode i believe. But i may be wrong.

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Personally I actually ended up buying Pokémon Tetris for the Pokémon MiNi

I'm still trying to track this down.

you'll have to look to Europe then as it wasnt released in the UK.

And as for Xbox Live Tetris...i think you can play "to the death" its called Knock Out mode i believe. But i may be wrong.

.::: Hmm you sparked my interest. :wub: Would make a simple christmas gift...

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Last tetris i played was Atari's Arcade version on my Jamma card as it was the only card I had to test with.

Game was reasonably fun, but it was all about racing against the clock (its the arcade, and money is an issue after all).

Not a patch on the GB classic though. Nintendo were genious's to lump both together.

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Last tetris i played was Atari's Arcade version on my Jamma card as it was the only card I had to test with.

Game was reasonably fun, but it was all about racing against the clock (its the arcade, and money is an issue after all).

Not a patch on the GB classic though. Nintendo were genious's to lump both together.

That reminds me: Exactly what did happen to Bullet-Proof Software? Did Nintendo finnaly buy them?

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The best Tetris update was The New Tetris on the N64. Line instead of score count, hypnotic background music and a new scoring system where if you got enough block together of the same type they would go either gold or silver which could then lead to a massive score.

I liked this, except...

It had a really crap flaw whereby the big blocks gave you loads of points and so the speed levels went up on 100s (1000s?) rather than 10s. Which sounds great, expect I always found myself getting stuck in a 'well' where it was too fast to make big blocks, but too slow to actually lose and the next speed level wasn't coming for a 100 lines or so.

Anyway, the last time I played Tetris was last week. An old version of Acid Tetris on the PC (really old: it's a DOS program, but its the best PC version of Tetris I've seen. Plus Winamp works behind it)

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I just remembered a really good version of Tetris: Tetris vs. Dr. Mario on the SNES. Not only did it play a Gameboy-standard version of Tetris, but there was a fantastic 2-player Triathalon mode which is the most fun you can have with a two-player puzzle game ever (including Puzzle Bobble)

Edit: Also Disney's Magical Tetris Challenge on GBC (no, seriously). Tower Tetris with that shooting block and combos was so wrong, and yet so right. It was great fun, and if the score hadn't had a stupidly low cap I would have played it for ages.

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