I'd say SRS without wallkicks is an accurate way to describe what is used in this mode. Also, S/Z don't have wall kicks as far as I can tell. However, you will find you can pop over things if you rotate into the upper horizontal orientation. This mode is really bad. 1/3G with lock delay? Ugh. Hello, nigh indefinitely survivable.
Haha, it really is awful. What's the point of simulating a primitive version of Tetris if you're not going to do it with near-100% fidelity? The dancers and the space shuttle are pretty ugly too. Is this just to make modern guideline-conforming games look better by comparison?
Tetris Concept members! This is your mission, should you choose to accept it: +If you have not done so already, create an account on http://www.tetrisfriends.com, preferably with the TC_ tag. (eg. TC_Kitaru, TC_Blink, etc.) +Put a message advertising Tetris Concept in your status. (e.g. tetrisconcept.com, #tetrisconcept on QuakeNet, etc.) +Play Tetris 1989 on Type-A and max the score counter. Start from level 9 to make things go faster in terms of scoring. If all goes well, this should take ~30 minutes to accomplish. The score counter maxes at 999,999, and ties are bumped down. This means that if we can get 10 people to max the score counter before anyone else, we can take that whole page of the leaderboard. It is painfully clear that they don't care about Tetris, but we can take this opportunity to insert some advertising for people that do.
this fake multiplayer idea is getting old. seriously, has there ever been an official multiplayer tetris game for PC released anywhere other than Japan and Korea?
Update on the leaderboard thing: I was misinformed. Ties get priority, apparently. However, I think we can still grab the page pretty easily. Please continue to play if you're still interested, but there is less pressure seeing as it isn't a race against time to earn a permanent spot.
status message changed. you know, they could have made the tiebreaker something substantial, like fewer lines or shorter time. even if you kept playing after 999,999 the game could remember where your stats were when the score was maxed.
Come on, people! If I can get 5th place with 576800, then you lot are definitely all capable of going all the way...
So, we're all hopelessly lost as to how the leaderboard settles tie-breakers now. The 4th person to achieve counter stop is in 4th. We've already exhausted most of the logical causes. :s
i was able to max out the score again today, and i'm a little disappointed that i have the same position in the all-time leaderboard, with stats from my first maxout. i'm disappointed not just because i played better today, but because it looks like you can't bump yourself up the leaderboard if you tie your best (unless by some strange statistic my game today wasn't as good). as more people max the score we'll slip further down the ranks. good news is a few more TC members have gotten to the top
Is the Acorn game just a 150-line marathon? I tried playing one game going for tetrises and one game doing ZT stacking, and my scores seemed like what I would get in the 150-line Marathon on T Party. Is this game basically just there as a sorry excuse of an ad for Ice Age?
5player live. http://twitter.com/tetrisfriends/statuses/3564364573 i signed up. but my 360 controller doesn't work in 10.6. i might try with a ps3 controller which i'll get in a week.
