Tetris
released on Dec 31, 1992
A remake of Tetris
A tile-matching puzzle video game. The goal is to place pieces made up of four tiles in a ten-by-twenty well, organizing them into complete rows, which then disappear. This is a version of Tetris made for the Philips CD-i.
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In terms of soundtrack and visual presentation, this must be what they use in Heaven in lieu of hold music. Apparently as a Tetris game it's flawed/unremarkable, I'm not good enough at it to tell. Gonna go back to listening to the OST on Youtube now.
got those weather channel jams in this one
On first brush with tetris cdi the lack of a proper fast drop seemed like a negative but i think removing a verb from tetris kinda adds to the head empty chill vibe of this thing.
Feels kinda Proto-Mizuguchi.
Also yeah the ost and backgrounds is so cool : )
Feels kinda Proto-Mizuguchi.
Also yeah the ost and backgrounds is so cool : )
This game was the real reason why I bought a CD-i. The most beautiful photorealistic animated backgrounds of nature adorn the edges of your tetris playfield monolith, while the smoothest, most weather-channel-core kind-of-vaporwave-but-not-really music plays. While the purpose of it was likely to showcase how CD media can be used to make a more "real" game compared to other variations of tetris up to this point, it also turned this game into an incredible aesthetic piece/time capsule.
As an actual tetris game, it's kinda mid at best. Only one direction to rotate the pieces, true random piece selection, no soft dropping, hard dropping relegated to a button press instead of the more logical up/down input, and no lock delay making having a low pile integral to survival. Despite all those problems, it's still Tetris. And I like Tetris. The game has a bespoke scenic background and song for each speed level, which does mean every 10 or so lines the game has to stop and load in the next level which can break the pace a bit. For once, I wish I wasn't so decent at Tetris so that I could spend more time in each level to really soak in the atmosphere.
I've heard this game be described as a proto-Tetris Effect due to its heavy aesthetic emphasis and I definitely see the similarities. Even when I made a mistake due to the myriad of minor gameplay gripes, I was never frustrated. If anything, starting over was exciting because I could vibe through the game from the beginning all over again. This game is basically the killer app of the system for me. It's a bit obscure, it's got that optimistic 90's CD-ROM energy, it's got an extremely strong aesthetic, and it's not the best in the gameplay department. Can you get any more CD-i than that?
As an actual tetris game, it's kinda mid at best. Only one direction to rotate the pieces, true random piece selection, no soft dropping, hard dropping relegated to a button press instead of the more logical up/down input, and no lock delay making having a low pile integral to survival. Despite all those problems, it's still Tetris. And I like Tetris. The game has a bespoke scenic background and song for each speed level, which does mean every 10 or so lines the game has to stop and load in the next level which can break the pace a bit. For once, I wish I wasn't so decent at Tetris so that I could spend more time in each level to really soak in the atmosphere.
I've heard this game be described as a proto-Tetris Effect due to its heavy aesthetic emphasis and I definitely see the similarities. Even when I made a mistake due to the myriad of minor gameplay gripes, I was never frustrated. If anything, starting over was exciting because I could vibe through the game from the beginning all over again. This game is basically the killer app of the system for me. It's a bit obscure, it's got that optimistic 90's CD-ROM energy, it's got an extremely strong aesthetic, and it's not the best in the gameplay department. Can you get any more CD-i than that?
Not the best version of Tetris, but it was very relaxing, thanks to the moody music and the background images.
Pretty mediocre version of Tetris held up by really good presentation and music. Interesting to play for novelty but it would never be my main version of the game. Get your fix somewhere else.