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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.
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What it looks like on th GB Color |
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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?
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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.
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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 name
d 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.
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