Cut the Rope Holiday - iPhone

Om Nom ... Om Nomming

This free game for the iPhone is really a demo for the $0.99 full game that doubles as a neat little free game.  I was impressed by the charming puzzle game and after completing th demo I quickly bought the full Version which is so big that... it's just so many puzzles.  I won't complete that any time soon.  I love the way they made a free mini version rather than a demo it worked perfectly and I never felt  pushed to buy the full version.

Missile Command for the Gameboy

Not able to confirm that that man's face is supposed to look like that.

Missile Command was apparently another popular arcade game and the only reason you should care is because it was in Terminator 2 when John Conner is seen playing it in the mall.  Speaking of which it's about time I let you down easy.  You will never go the the arcade with friends after school eat pizza and drink chug-a-freezes via The Weekenders.

Cairo ... Obviously

The Game Boy game features portability as it's only "new thing" to offer.  I got very bored very fast even though I wanted to respect the origins of this game.  As the levels change the backgrounds change.  I know it seems simple but this was literally my favorite part of this game.  Creating the pixelated backgrounds seems like it must have taken a little bit of effort as opposed to the game play which feels like an action figure whose mouth was painted too big because the assembly line was moving too quickly.

Everytime I pick this up I miss my old transparent purple.  If you had anthing else your parents didn't love you.

New York City was represented by a crooked Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers and London had that weird bridge thing.  and of course Paris had a sweet view of the Eiffel Tower but alas I will never know how Moscow was represented due to my inability to force myself to be decent at this game if you call it that.  Another thing is that this games high score board was broken just like Tetris's.  I wonder if this is due to the age of this generation of game.  If you'd like to see the first half of the game beaten rather well here is a link. I played on my sweet pink GBC.

Tetris for the Original GameBoy

I want to play this drawing.

Apparently way back in the summer of 1989 the original GameBoy came with a packed in Tetris cartridge.  I was 9 months old when this game was released.  For two decades it's been following a strange path in the world until I found it in my sister's abandoned pink game boy color in my mother's garage.  The game was probably mine at some point in my childhood but I was too busy at the time catching them all to be bothered with the amazing stacking puzzle game that is Tetris.
  

What it looks like on th GB Color

J.S. Bach - French Suite no. 3 in B minor (BWV 814) ?

The game features three different music "types". The music consists of Type A the same as everyone's heard and  knows from the arcade cabinets.  Type B consists of a more native Russian sound.  The best bleeps and bloops to listen to while stacking though is hidden the obscure and rarely chosen Type C.  Type C is apparently some classical Bach and I wasn't aware I was a fan until Tetris for GB.  I wonder if they had to licence Bach's music.  I wonder if people still care about licencing today's music in a couple centuries.  Does someone own the right's to Bach's music?  Can they?  When Paul McCartney finally dies along with Ringo and maybe Yoko along  with them will I finally be able to play "Hey Jude" in a game I'm developing? without paying royalties?  Or will someone else own that?

What my Top-Scores always looks like.

Then there are two different Game play "Types".  Classic or "game type A" is where you choose a starting speed, getting more  points for starting at a higher speed, and then struggle to survive as long as possible in order to write your name on the high-score board.  I'm not sure if it was because the game was 20+ years old or if it's just a ridiculously not well made game but it wouldn't save my high-scores.  I know playing Tetris without hichscores seems a lot like pooping without toilet paper, disappointing at the end, but Tetris had a saving grace.

Alexey Pajitnov

Game Type B consists of choosing a "Level" or speed and a "High" which chooses the amount of screen already  taken up by a amalgamated clod of bricks you have to puzzle your way through.  I'm very proud to declare that after thousands of restarts I was able to defeat Level: 9 High: 5 which randomly took me to a cut-scene of a rocket ship taking off.  Pretty cool I must say.

Apparently this guy named Alexey Pajitnov is the original creator of Tetris but his evil communist government technically owned it so he didn't get any money until recently.  His most recent release was a game called Hexic 2 for XBLA which I don't have, making Dwice, his newest PC game, earn a spot on my wish list.