Tetris Comes To Life, for REAL Yo!
Remember circa 1989 when everybody HAD to own a Gameboy? Not necessarily for the hardware or the game library as it was pretty small at the time (little did we know). No, the reason everyone had to have a gameboy was to play Tetris. That crazy russian game where you fit cube pieces into rows before they stacked up against you. I seriously had, and still have, dreams of trying to get all the pieces lined up. Doesn’t matter how well I do in the dreams, I always wake up in nightmarish state because the pieces started falling too fast and I lost control of my pretend game. Sometimes I have a hard time looking at buildings or funiture as I think to myself “If you rotate this building sideways, it would fit perfectly between those two buildings over there.”
As bad as that sounds, I still can’t get enough of the addicting (seriously) game. I’ve owned several different versions of tetris for all platforms. The best one I had was a free one for KDE a few years back (makes me miss Linux). Now, I currently am stuck with Tetris Worlds for GBA.
The good news, or bad if you have nightmares like I do, is Radica has taken Tetris out of the digital world and brought it to ours. Tetris Tower 3D is a real-to-life party game that sits on your table with a group of friends as you team up to put the pieces in place. Little plastic pieces are shaped with grooves in the right places so they can be rotated and dropped on the playfield in a Connect-Four fashion. Opponents all play on the same game grid, so the gameplay is a little different. And, since it is physical space, the completed rows can’t magically be removed. So instead, you flip a switch to claim the row as yours. You win the game by claiming the most rows.
The game does have “dramatic music” and “blinkenlights” to enhance the classic Tetris feel. Not sure if it is the Tetris music (please! No!, I mean YES!, I mean, I don’t know!), or if it is original to Radica Games. Either way, looks like Tetris Tower is next logical step in Tetris evolution, as well as in gamers collections.
[Via ModernJackass]
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Ev3n(lol, even) though nobody finds this interesting, otherwise somebody would’ve posted way before now, I think this looks neat. Too bad this can’t be on the shelves because it looks like something similar to the game Connect Four. Awesome work.