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February 03, 2005
Renewing old friendships
Friends who knew me in UCD will know that I was a pretty poor student at the best of times, spending far too long working on college newspapers, among other things. And those who knew me from working on college newspapers will know I spent far too long hogging the main design mac, playing a little gem called Tetris Plus.
Yup, that's a working hyperlink. God help me, it's found me again. And it's brilliant. Now, I'm at least five years older, and not a huge fan of retro-gaming, but hearing that music again made me shiver. My brain immediately knew what to do, but my clumsy fingers couldn't translate knowing into keypresses quickly enough. Still, made it to level 15 with 23568 points; not a bad showing after a break of five years.
Apparently, Tetris Plus is an 'interpretation' of Tetris 2, but a solid two minutes of research via Google couldn't get a decent description of how Tetris 2 played, so it's hard to say. The gameplay is deeper than that of Tetris - you can break up the pieces, gravity plays a part, and you've to align three or more squares of the same colour, not complete lines - which is off-putting to alot of Tetris traditionalists. But I get bored of Tetris quite quickly whereas this little beauty is that bit more involving.
If you fancy a go, remember that the above file will only work on Apple computers. I would seriously consider buying a Mac Mini to play this game. What? I want one is all. I want everyone to have one.
I held the college newspaper office record for three solid months before some blow-in got pissed off trying to reach it and deleted the high-scores. Hmmm. Maybe my dogged focus on holding every ranking in the high score table was to blame...
Posted by Oliver at February 3, 2005 12:56 AM
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