This pair comes straight from the motherland where Paszitnov, a year-old Soviet researcher who works at the Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of Scientists in Moscow, and Gerasimov, an year-old student studying Computer Informatics at Moscow University, combined forces to produce one of the hottest original game ideas ever.
Tetris combines many elements from a number of gaming genres. It's a reflex-tester with strategic overtones and arcade-style pacing that keeps the action level at a constant high. The game touches so many different play themes that it has had little difficulty succeeding as a computer import and will soon make its long announced arrival to the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Tetris will also do what only a handful of games have ever done: complete the gaming circle and appear as a corn-operated arcade game courtesy of coin-op giant Atari Games. Some call it a cult following, but whatever the driving force is behind the popularity of Tetris it is definitely not a boring game.
The problem is that it's also not an overly active game either. You never control more than one piece of the Tetris puzzle at once, and the animation of each of the pieces is limited to four different positions.
No, it's not the graphics and not the animation that make Tetris so addicting. And it's not the series of Russian tunes that add atmosphere to the title.
It's the totally consuming and absolutely absorbing game play. Tetris is one game that highlights the importance of good play before graphic masterpieces. Tetris is surprisingly easy to play. The goal is simple - fit the five game pieces together as they fall from the top of the screen to the bottom. If an entire horizontal line is filled that row of blocks is eliminated and any other blocks that are built up descend one level.
The challenge is to keep the blocks from stacking and progressing up the screen. Once the bricks have no room to fall, the game is over. The game really heats up by throwing in an abundance of risk incentives that range from higher point awards for moving the blocks down the screen into their final position faster to heavier bricks that increase in speed with each level completed.
Fitting blocks together may sound like the easiest video game you've ever heard of. The truth is, however, that even though you only have five different shapes to move in a maximum of four different positions, keeping these blocks from quickly forming a huge wall and ending the game is a feat that will challenge even the best players.
No matter what your gaming talents may be, don't look for any rewards from Tetris. Tengen has faithfully captured the mind-bending fun of the original PC version of Tetris and, like they did with their NES home version of Gauntlet , have added many new and exciting features that make the game even more playable.
The most notable differences between the computer and Nintendo versions of Tetris are the slick, refined graphics that the Nintendo version boasts, as well as two-player interaction that lets you compete with a friend or even the computer!
You can also select one of four musical themes prior to playing. And watch out for the delightful intermissions that introduce a quartet of dancing Soviets in between rounds. All of the little bells and whistles that were absent from the computer original can now be found in the brilliant Nintendo version of this new gaming classic! While Tetris won't win any awards for being a hard shooter or riveting adventure, it does capture a multitude of the play mechanics that make these types of games so appealing.
Simple but original game play make Tetris an addictive alternative to and endless supply of shoot-em-ups, kick-em-ups, and bash-em-ups, and very worthy of the U.
The first game software from the Soviet Union is an intense battle of wits. Rotate and flip moving geometric blocks into unbroken rows. When you fill up a row, it disappears from the screen and your score rises. Nothing to it, right? When you can't find the way to make the pieces fit together and more blocks tumble down ever faster, you'll wish you had ten hands -- and ten brains. Play this addictive mind game by yourself, against a friend or against the computer.
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