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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
My work here is dung.
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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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.
My other account has mod points.
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.
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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2) Have you actually played Puyo Puyo?
There are alot of other puzzle games that Tetris Push is more similar to (Lumines multiplayer, for example).
Puyo Puyo isn't one of them. The similarities between the two games end pretty much at the fact that they both have falling pieces and they're both puzzle games.