Tetris, Genesis 'TV Game' Devices Detailed

Thanks to Spong.com for its report on the announcement of Radica's new Tetris 'TV game' device, to be launched in the UK alongside previously mentioned Sega Genesis and Taito all-in-one devices. Apparently, "The [oddly designed] Tetris unit comes with two specially designed controllers containing several variants of the classic Russian puzzler: Tetris, Battle Tetris, Garbage, Timed and Hotline", and in addition to this, the previously-confirmed Genesis 'TV game' is "...fueled by the 16-bit pleasures of Sonic, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Flicky and Kid Chameleon."

Comments

Re:oddly designed

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually it almost makes sence... you have your four directions... and twirl the square thing to make your block rotate. Fairly simple... no buttons needed.

Re:That's one freaky-ass controller

[MasterDirk]

I think pressing the up direction is the normal way.

But I do see how a z-axis turn on the stick ("twisting the knob" is just too much of an invitation...) would be best, since the controller sort of looks like a tetris-board.