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The New Look of Tetris
Via a Joystiq post, the British Gaming Blog has videos of Tetris on the DS. The short movies include the standard mode, and the 'push mode' that will be playable over Nintendo's wifi service. From the Joystiq post: "As for the ingenious Donkey Kong-themed Push mode, it seems ideally suited for Wi-Fi multiplayer battles. Each player is relegated to one of the DS screens, with the opponent being mirrored in the bottom screen (i.e. his blocks move upwards). Each player slots Tetrominoes into a cluster of blocks that's initially right in the middle of the two playing fields. Performing well and racking up combos pushes the block cluster away and into your opponent's screen, lessening his maneuvering space and chances of survival. "
For those of you who don't remember what Tetris used to be like, enjoy the Unofficial Homepage.
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Oh come on, the squeal of joy and flash when you got a full fledged Tetris was clearly an electronic orgasm. And don't get me started on the phallic nature of the only piece that will get you a Tetris
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This sounds awfully like Puyo Puyo to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo
For those of you that want to try out the pushmode blobtrix has been doing that for some time now. I don't know if it's the first, but it's free to try =)
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It's nice you've found something you believe so adamantly.
Now keep it to yourself.
I once found this interesting text about Tetris as an analysis of our own lives:
Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong -- a rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, and we're fighting to repair the damage, but we've been thrown off-balance, and everything is piling up. Blocks that were once orderly and harmonious are jumbled and filled with holes, and our cup is on the verge of running over. There's always a point at which we stop planning for the future, and realize that we don't have one -- all we can do is cling to the present and concentrate, focus our minds on what it's like to be alive, to play the game, before it's all over.
You were waiting for a four-by-one block that never came.
Sometimes we resist to the bitter end, moving blocks left and right without thought or care, just to hang on, and sometimes we accept the inevitable and pull the blocks down to us, smiling inwardly at the great joke. The rest is silence.
It could easily be defined as a "Tetris-do" of sorts.
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So, can you play your Tetris in new game modes, wirelessly over the internet? Even if it's technically possible, how many GP2X owners are out there to play against?
This is the kind of thing that the public domain allows. It means that anyone can create a derivative of a public-domain work without paying royalties to the original creator. I'm free to create my own Tetris clone. It doesn't mean I have to release my Tetris clone into the public domain. It doesn't mean my Tetris clone must be free either.
Oh, and the monopoly thing was more than 15 years ago. Way to dredge up some FUD there, AC.
This looks like the game that will finally bring the Nintendo Wifi online service to its full potential. I mean, seriously, tetris on the internet. That's the kind of thing I've been waiting for for years, ever since I couldn't get Tetrinet to work on an ancient Slack installation.
I kind of wonder though. When can we expect this, and will it have the simplistic online functionality of Mario Kart DS or the more sophisticated functionality being promised for Metroid Prime Hunters? Most specifically will it have the voice chat features already promised for Metroid Prime Hunters?
Sounds like tetrinet but with only 2 players.
http://www.tetrinet.org/
Forget Tetris for a second, there's a much better DS story today:
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Datatel will be releasing a 4GB harddrive for the DS in March. Lik-sang is taking pre-orders for $179 US (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=873
It lets the user play MP3 audio tracks, watch videos and view JPEGs. See images of the HDD and a screenshot of the media player here: http://www.nintendorevolution.ca/02132006/21/nint
Here is a mirror:o s/
http://ds.thenetbox.com/2006/02/14/tetris-ds-vide
Looks like they've finally managed to come up with a way to mutate Tetris that actually retains the charm of the original, a task most commercial mutations failed at IMHO. (HatTris, anyone?)
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The videos are also available at the official page.
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As much as I love Tetris, there are only so many ways to skin a dead horse.
Making a cutesy, semi autonomous version of an NES game playing on one screen while you scramble to make lines on a Tetris board below is really lame, in my opinion.
I have been wanting to develop a version of Tetris that uses some novel ideas to the game play I haven't yet seen (although Tetris worlds and Tetris Elements have used some of the ideas I have had). I.e. I want to add to the Tetris experience, not just add some gimmicks to it. Of course I can't call it Tetris, but "That block falling game" has some appeal.
I don't know if the Tetris experience is improved with a touch screen, my guess is it just makes it annoying compared to the quick response of a gamepad and buttons.
In all, this is a childish gimmick, certainly not in keeping with Nintendo's supposed statement that they aim to target the 35+ year old market. Keep flogging the Mario, Donkey Kong and Zela franchises in hundreds of off-shoot games and your never going to get adults believing you are making games for them.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
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But this is the L-shaped Tetris block. Good God. It's undefeated.
The L-Shaped Block is the Most Feared
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
I prefer the real life version.
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We need Tetris The Grand Master 2 right now. Bring on the death mode!
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The push mode looks like it will be really fun to play. Not sure I quite understand standard mode though... Is it that you're controlling the currently falling piece, and Mario, at the same time? That would be a challenge for us single-minded folks!
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The touch mode also looks neat, since it looks like it's more logic-based than traditional tetris. You're not worrying about pieces as they fall -- and fall faster over time -- but on solving an ever-changing puzzle of already mashed up pieces. Kind of like the modes in tranditional tetris that started you with half a screen full of pieces and you had to work your way out.
Man, now I want a Nintendo DS!
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If you sheeple would stop buying Nintopoly crap and invest in open source alternatives, maybe then I'd have some playmates. In the meantime I'll just enjoy the air of superiority that comes from knowing I use Linux exclusively.
It's on the DS, not the GP2X.
Screw mirrors and semi-unknown blogs... the videos were originally posted here: Nintendo's own website.
I saw the videos. The best one is that ballon fight mode (the puzzle mode, that is not against time).
The first video (that dual-screen multiplayer) was confusing. I don't think I would like it or I would be used to play it when the gameplay area keeps going up an down. I might even get seasick.
On second video... Wtf was that pixelated 8-bit mario with some cheap "3-D" rotating effect? That looks ugly, and looks like they did not have anything better to put there, and it is there just to fill space.
On both first and second videos, I did not understand the relationship between mario/donkey kong and Tetris itself. What was that happening on right (1st video) and on top (2nd video)? Do we control both tetris and mario at same time? If yes, well, that's interesting, but not really funny. And, again, looks pretty cheap, since they used the plain old NES mario on this supposedly new game. Do they think they can still sell the first Super Mario game? This would be the same as Sega putting Alex Kid or Sonic 1 at half of screen, while Dr. Robotinik's Mean Bean Machine is being played at other half.
I don't have Nintendo DS, nor any modern console or portable video games. But, looking at this, I prefer to keep my good and old Tetris mini-game.
I always called the buggers "tetrads." Am I the only one?
Puyo Puyo's multiplayer mode is similar to the old Tetris multiplayer mode, where elements you remove get added to the other player's stack. The new Tetris multiplayer mode seems to be quite different in that the fields in which the players stack their elements are actually connected at the bottom, if I understand it correctly.
The only worthwhile thing about that game was the 4 player mode... and that was god-awful. Tetris 64(or whatever it was called), with square mode, could not be beaten(It also had 4-player). Clearing a gold square with a Tetris... yummmm that's tasty.