@allison @xianc78 have yet to see any reason to play anything but tetris effect connected personally

@anna @xianc78 TE:C is the best guideline game but the guideline is.... absolute garbage, to put it mildly. For a skill testing single player Tetris game, Arika rotation is just objectively better in every single respect.

@allison @xianc78 i watch a lot of the classic tetris matches so i like that i can play a very faithful recreation of classic nes tetris without fucking with getting an nes to work or plugging up some emulator to the tv

@anna @xianc78 nestris is broken but in a different way, I want to do a das maxout on it eventually but I can't say it's anywhere near my preferred version

@allison @xianc78 im not good enough at it to really need to bust out TGM or anything like that. between TEC and 99 it covers pretty much everything i enjoy. but yeah most of the fun of nes tetris is that its kiiiind of one of the worst ones, but in a way it makes a fascinating competitive game

@anna @xianc78 it's actually relatively well balanced for a game released that early on, definitely a more natural counterstop than gb tetris and let's not even get into true horrors like the original bps famicom version

@allison @xianc78 its a shame that the game boy one couldn't figure out how to do a regulation size board, the tourney scene for that shit would be insane instead of some niche thing if it was the correct height

@anna @xianc78 would it? it's just a tap game, there are a billion of those out there for better or worse. (the only gb games I'm aware of to have a regulation sized board are pandoras blocks and maybe magical tetris challenge?)

@allison @xianc78 gb tetris is like, one of the highest selling games of all time, tons of nostalgia for it, and there ARE tournaments and such for it. the only real explanation for NES tetris being one of if not the biggest tetris tourney games over gb is that its a regulation board and maaaaybe that its easier to put up on a tv, not to mention the nintendo world championships in the 80s

@allison I personally never played it. I only know of that game because of those hidden messages. I assume that's what the game is actually mostly known for. It taught me that there are some things intentionally left hidden for hackers/data miners to discover.

Sadly though, it rarely happens anymore because games are pretty much data-mined day one and anyone caught doing something like that not only risks losing their job but risks getting a decent job ever again. It's a true relic of a different time.