Tetris

released on Sep 19, 2019

A port of Tetris

A port of the Sega arcade version made for the Sega Genesis Mini console.


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Es Tetris, es divertido, aunque esta no sea la mejor versión de su época.

Mediocre Tetris. Nothing special about this release sadly. It's still Tetris so it's not bad, but there are so many better releases.

oddest experience of childhood was playing multiplayer of this on psp by using one half of the dpad/shoulder buttons while the partner holds the other. genesis hyperfixation makes you find very inconvenient ways to do things.

Tetris on the Sega Genesis is fascinating. This is one of the rarest Sega Genesis games of all time, and it was a shock that in 2019, SEGA and M2 brought the game over to the Genesis Mini, which was where I played it

The gameplay here is your standard Tetris; it's self-explanatory at this point. However, I find the controls here to be quite clunky and delayed, and that is not something you want to hear when you play a Tetris game. Also, the speed at which the Tetrominoes fall goes really fast. It's standard that the speed of the fallen Tetrominoes goes up when reaching the high levels, but it’s just way too much in this game. The max level I can go up to is like 10 and combining this with the clunky controls just hinders my experience with this version

The visuals haven't aged the best. They go for highly-detailed backgrounds of realistic landscapes (At least I think) that looks so pixelated and not pleasant to look at nowadays. The music is also a huge miss. They don't have the iconic Russian songs like in the Nintendo versions and instead have their own original songs (I think). I'm not a fan of the music here, and there are only two songs that play in the background; one is the normal version and one is the version that plays when you're close to reaching the top

There's just no variety here, and I think summarizes this whole game up for me. It's completely barebones, and while it's neat that it's on the Genesis Mini, it's just more of a novelty than anything, and the legacy surrounding the game is overshadowed by the actual game itself

Just like Columns, it's fun in short bursts, but it isn't something I want to back to from time to time. While this isn't a bad version of Tetris, I just feel like you have better options

It's a neat version of Tetris, but honestly the legacy of the Genesis version of the game overshadows the game itself. Plus the use of real life photography does make it stand out a bit.