1. How and why did you start playing Tetris? Can you also please specify how long you have been playing Tetris and if you consider yourself a great player? I started playing Tetris about a year ago mainly on Tetrisfriends.com but I don't consider my self a great player but in the end whenever I'm a good player or not depends to who I'm being compared with, although I can my friends butt if ask for a challenge 2. What Tetris games do you play and how much do you play daily on average? I have already played some Tetris DS, but I mainly play on my pc in tetrisfriends rather than that I have tried it in one of those butchet machines and on my old gameboy. I usually play 2 hours per day. I play when I fell like it and I only play for fun so I really dont care much about my scores. 3. What other games besides Tetris (if any ) keep you busy? Besides Tetris the only thing I can think of is Teamfortress 2 wich I play on my days off 4. Any other block/puzzle game you recommend I should look into? Tetris variants are also welcome. Meteos is a really good one, and Lumines is pretty fun too.
So there's this guy at my college who plays a lot of TGM. I heard he got GM on TAP last month or something. Anyways, my first attempt at Tetris was the Game Boy Tetris from waaaaaaay back, when I was a child. My first attempt at TGM was around Christmas. I can hit 500 on TAP on occasion, so I'm not that good. I'm hilariously bad decent at Tetris, I'd say. I've mostly been playing TGM1 and TAP lately. If initially I do well for the first few games then I continue playing. Conversely, if I continue to do poorly at first then I stop, usually for the day. I'd say I play around 30 minutes to an hour. --Music games: I have In The Groove on PS2 and Stepmania 4 on my laptop, and I'm slowly getting better at DrumMania. I'm also starting to get into DJ Max Technika. --RPGs: I can name at least four RPGs I've started but haven't finished. Mana Khemia: Alchemist of Al-Revis, Final Fantasy 12, Dragon Quest 8, and Mother 3. --Shmups: I've been playing Giga Wing, Strikers 1945, and DoDonPachi as of late. Bad at all of them. --MMORPGs: Valkyrie Sky. Shmup MMORPG goodness.
Welcome CrazedRevenG and everyone else! You must be talking about Kitaru. Oh so he's already famous. Same here. No need to waste your time if you're not in the mood to play. Hope to see you post your personal bests soon.
Hi there. After a couple of weeks of logging on I finally noticed this introduction sticky... 1. How and why did you start playing Tetris? Can you also please specify how long you have been playing Tetris and if you consider yourself a great player? I never played any Tetris variant for any length of time until now. I've of course seen loads of variants over the years (I think the version I played most was called something like "Quadris" for the Amiga which had a great 4-way split screen versus mode... I played that a bit when I was at school. I came across TGM via MAME and it immediately caught my attention. Searching the web I came across TetrisConcept and learned of Texmaster, Heboris and NullpoMino. The latter is my favourite, it's easily configured, is accurate from what little I can tell and seems nicely polished with lots of modes. 2. What Tetris games do you play and how much do you play daily on average? I play NullpoMino exclusicely. With little serious Tetris play previously under my belt, the achievements are pretty modest as you might imagine. I play Classic2 rules exclusively, I want to learn to deal with whatever awkward pieces I get to begin with before I add holds into the mix. I routinely get grade 2 on Grade Mania 2 on NullpoMino, my best level is 491 so far: I get to 400 and very soon a mistake happens and a cataclysmic collapse shortly follows! I finished Time Attack Normal Mode to 150 lines in just over 8 minutes as well. Again not brillilant, I am sure. I can feel the improvement slowly happening though... it's amazing how the game draws you in! I play on a HRAP3 stick. 3. What other games besides Tetris (if any ) keep you busy? Civ 4 with the Rise of Mankind mod, a strategy game that you always eventually come back to. Modders are still all over this one and some amazing things continue to be added. Oblivion with many mods. Morrowind introduced me to sandbox RPGs and although Oblivion was simplistic out of the box, with mods it is still a blast to play. For atmosphere and freeform gameplay I've never played anything like it. I see quite a bit of mention of DDR and ITG on here, I used to play loads of both. In ITG I completed all the 10 and 11 songs to 2 or 3 stars and most of the 12s to 1 or 2 stars... playing "spread" on keyboard however. About 2 years ago I got a Bluetooth keyboard and the lack of precision timing screwed my scores, so I never reinstalled the game when I rebuilt a new PC! That rhythmn game gap in my life is now filled by Guitar Hero which I play with my family... drums and guitar. Finally, Pro Evo master league in coop mode continues to be a blast. 2010 on PC with mods is great fun! I loved Medieval 2: Total War with the Stainless Steel mod but played that to death. Never quite felt the same about Empire, the gun combat never quite grabbed me in the same way as the melees of Medieval! 4. Any other block/puzzle game you recommend I should look into? Tetris variants are also welcome. I enjoyed both Puzzle Bobble 4 and Doctor Robotnik for versus gaming but I doubt either of those have much to hold the interest of decent TGM players. Out of interest, what's the age of your average TGM-aholic? As you might imagine from the Amiga references I am just about old enough to know better!
I think the typical user is late highschool or college aged. But there's a good bunch of adult players too.
Mean Bean Machine? That's a reskin of Puyo Puyo 1. People die a bit fast in that one since there wasn't Garbage Countering and other such mechanics yet. Puyo Puyo 2 added some of those key features that improve the versus play a lot. Puyo 1/Mean Bean are still great fun as long as you don't mind matches lasting 7 seconds though, hahaha. LadyLily is probably the biggest Puyo player here, but I know there are others. CrazedRevenge and I play Puyo 2 together sometimes.
You must not know how deep puyo really is. *actually this reminds me that i haven't posted my intro yet, lol*
Howdy everyone. I'm probly just going to lurk here unless something interesting pops up, but I figured I might as well introduce myself anyway. 1. How and why did you start playing Tetris? Can you also please specify how long you have been playing Tetris and if you consider yourself a great player? Somebody off-handedly mentioned heboris in an IRC channel I frequented. After decimating Tetris DS, I figured it wouldn't be too hard to beat his S9 rank in MASTER-#G3, which emulates TAP I'm pretty sure. A good year or two later, I did! (GM in 7:43 with WORLD rotation ) I don't even remember the guy, but I sure showed him. I consider myself pretty good, yeah. But I can still find people at least 25% faster than me. 2. What Tetris games do you play and how much do you play daily on average? Just heboris, but I'm getting a joystick pretty soon to make it at least a bit more authentic. I usually go for hour-long sessions, but not quite every day. 3. What other games besides Tetris (if any ) keep you busy? TF2. It is like FPS crack. Touhou is another game I keep coming back to, in case my registration here wasn't enough to convince anybody of my love of "hardcore" games. 4. Any other block/puzzle game you recommend I should look into? Tetris variants are also welcome. Can't go wrong with panel de pon and it's variants.
And out from the shadows comes an 11 year old 1. I started playing about 7 years ago, playing NES Tetris when I was 4. I used to be some what good but after taking a year long break from TGM I suck pretty bad. 2. I mostly play Hebo because Texmaster refuses to run on my Windows 7 x64, I used to play about a quarter of every day, but I don't play that much anymore. 3. CoD4, CoD6 (But only hacking because it's a horrible game), BC2 and a lot of Valve games like TF2. 4. Newp 5. The smiley doesn't look as good as the original awesome face.
Hey all. I'm new to the community, but definitely not Tetris. I've literally played longer than I could remember. I had Game Boy Tetris probably around the age of 2 and have been playing on and off for quite some time (I'm 20 now). Mind you, it's not like I've been playing every day of my life, but you get the picture. As for my skill, I'd consider myself a fairly above average player. On the classic GB and NES tetris games I could get to level 20 and last for some time and have beaten level 9 - height 5 several times. As for the new standards, I discovered 20G tetris about a few years ago and TGM maybe 1 year ago. My skill is slowly getting better but not perfect. I've gotten S8 on on TGM1, and S5 on Shirase. Obviously, I am among the many who don't have an official machine around me. I did at one time but it was removed. So I play on either Texmaster or NullPomino (which seems to have sticky controls compared to Texmaster). I play about 2 hours every day on average. Sometimes up to four, sometimes not at all. I mean hey, I do have other hobbies. I'm a very avid Dance Dance Revolution/In The Groove player. I'm close to making a few world rankings in these games and am freinds with people who already are world competitors (one of which has his own ITG machine which is always fun). Aside from DDR, I also love rubik's cubes and other twisty puzzles. I am among the few who have tackled and mastered the dreaded 4D cube to those who know what it is. I lament to say I am not so special at twisty puzzles, but it's still a fun time waster. I think this place is really cool and I regret not having joined sooner. I'm not too familiar with the community but I'm sure the pieces will come into place if I just work at it.
Nope, I live an hour from the the Arcade Infinity at Rowland Heights which had the TGM3 (Saw the thread just earlier). I'll be keeping a look out for the machine's return.
Welcome SWR! Your current TGM achievements are not bad all. Quite a few players on this forum share the same hobbies as you. Have fun during your stay.
