Time to lose ?

http://www.frappr.com/tgm

http://www.frappr.com/tetris

 

i just added myself to "tetris." can you find me?

 

I'm there now, as well. It's sort of lonely.

 

whee South represent yo.

 

Is there nobody apart from me and niku who lives outside the U.S.?

 

PA for life, yo.

 

Ditto....at least til I move. lol

 

Oh, holy cow, cosmonaut lives in Wisconsin? Dude, I went to college up there in Ashland (which admittedly is a solid 3 hour drive from where you live, but still, that's awesome.

 

lol, seriously the nearest Tetris player from me is like 170,00 km!

Dam Australia and its non-Tetris playing population.


- Jono

 

Added myself. Feel pretty lonely in Europe's mainland .

 

Interesting how there's no-one on mainland europe on 'tetris', but loads on'tgm'

 

TGM probably stands for something else in Europe, just as TNT stands for both The New Tetris and an explosive.

 

I don't think that "TGM" acronym stand more naturally to a puzzle game in Europe/EU or everywhere else except Japan...


in France TNT also stand for :


- dynamite (napoleon ?)

- a company delivery service

- Television Numerique Terrestre (more recently)

 

don't forget the next tetris.

 

Uhh... no they're all TGM players. And there're more who aren't on there, mostly from mainland europe as well. For some reason France and Sweden are just full of them.

 

I thought TGM didn't run on North American or European consoles.

 

And you would be correct.

 

So 1. why was the decision made to make TGM a Japan-exclusive game, and 2. how are there so many players of a Japan-exclusive game on the other side of the globe from Japan?

 

1. Licensing problems

2. Dunno, but I'm guessing that tetris_japan_finals video had something to do with it. At least... that's what sparked my interest in it...

 

Kotetsu nailed it. Though I'd add to #1:


TGM seems to exist in spite of TTC and not because of it. Also, Arika is a pretty small company. Put it all together and TGM is more or less stranded in Japan.

Amusing sidenote: tetris_japan_finals is not the proper name of that video. It was originally distributed as death_800.mpeg from Arika's website. And it's quite possibly the weakest Tetris video to ever appear on Arika's site.