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February 05, 2005
Former big fish in small pond syndrome
"You can never go back, and it hurts to try" is my new motto. This is after discovering that the tetris clone I was so bloody thrilled about finding is, in fact:
- a knock-off of Tetris 2 (according to my girlfriend)
- broken.
I don't know why I didn't notice it before, but it's possible to position two blocks in one square. Clearly this violates the laws of both physics and tetris. And if you do this, you're in with a good chance of screwing yourself. Two blocks fall twice as far, apparently, and if one falls off the playing area there's no way to clear it. Even the super-duper Six In A Row of the Same Colour move (that usually clears all the blocks of that colour, complete with a nice whooshy sound) can't reach blocks outside the play area. So the tile count never reaches zero, and the level never ends.
It's like re-discovering a long lost old friend, only to find out they were actually some alien life form pretending to be human, and all those laughs you had were just to harvest laugh hormones to sell on an alien laugh hormones black market. Stupid aliens. Still, it was worth it: my sweetheart has a copy of the original Tetris 2 on the Gameboy! And she's got a bit of a thing for games too. Not nearly as much as me, of course, as I'm downright unhealthy about them. But even so: Aw.
Posted by Oliver at February 5, 2005 05:46 PM
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