Tetris 25th Anniversary

Thread in 'Discussion' started by lgb, 6 Jun 2009.

  1. Zaphod77

    Zaphod77 Resident Misinformer

    COrrections.

    Phantom mode actually not only makes the Os invisible, but the following piece as well.

    Tetris Battle Gaiden introduced a sort of cascade among tetris games (rensa mode). But it worked a bit differently. all individual blocks not supported by orbs fell after every line clear. The next tetris implemented sticky cascade, and predated quadra. So quadra did not invent cascade.
     
  2. jujube

    jujube Unregistered

    i'm pretty sure only the O's are invisible. i have a video if you want to see:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sos3dZJ5pY

    conveniently there's a zangi move near the beginning, to show fast drop is non-locking.
     
  3. So that version can also be the first one with "invisible Tetris," too.
     
  4. I guess but it's literally impossible to get invisible tetrises. [​IMG]
     
  5. Zaphod77

    Zaphod77 Resident Misinformer

    Hmm..

    yea,h i guess i've just been fooled, and the pieces haven't been landing where i thought they were.

    it's really annoying, though.

    recently been playing Super Tetris 3. This game is from 1994, and appears to have srs without wallkicks. also a rather strange set of colors.
     
  6. Also known as BPS 4 position.
     
  7. jujube

    jujube Unregistered

    try playing with Draw Next Off + Phantom. getting two O's in a row can really mess you up, and level 9 is extremely hard because you don't know you have an O until it's been active for a little while, so you might as well let them fall in the center and try to stack around them.
     
  8. jujube

    jujube Unregistered

    that's a pretty good analogy. i'm sure it applies to people outside of America too.
     
  9. tepples

    tepples Lockjaw developer

    Game Informer interviewed Mr. Pajitnov for issue 195 (July 2009).

    And then he went on to describe the use of [] characters for blocks. But he did mention "clone" in the Tetris heritage. Incidentally, PDP-11 was the second machine to run Unix (after the PDP-7), and the Tetris Friends and Tetris Zone web sites run a clone of Unix.

    About the longevity of Tetris, he had this to say:
    There are plenty of things that one could read into this with a bit of effort. For example, garbage drilling modes in some Tetris games involve destruction, and one could stretch this statement to look like a condemnation of garbage drilling modes. That would explain why The Next Tetris wasn't really the next Tetris, and the garbage in Tetris Friends is closer to the falling ceiling of Tetris 2 and Wario's Woods than in Tetris for Game Boy and Tetris DS. "Match 3" games such as Puzzle League and Bejeweled also involve drilling through garbage, and this might be part of why he and Mr. Rogers think calling Puzzle League "Tetris Attack" was a mistake.
     
  10. tepples

    tepples Lockjaw developer

    Just discovered this: It appears Tetris was invented exactly 40 years after the invasion of German-occupied Normandy. Commemorating T-Day instead of D-Day made at least one person switch to Yahoo!.
     
  11. Muf

    Muf

    I actually don't think Google generally commemorates negative or sad events. For instance: they won't commemorate a deceased person's death, but they will commemorate the person's birthday. That said, I don't recall seeing specialised Google logos related to any war, be it WWI, WWII or Vietnam. People should really stop throwing sand into their vaginas.
     
  12. Sometimes I read freerepublic for laughs, one time I searched for tetris there. There were MANY people pissed off because Google honored tetris instead of D-day. They all switched to bing.
     

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