Otaku100 wrote:> benstylus wrote:
>> citizen_zane wrote:
> |>> benstylus wrote:
>> |>> At evillecon, have an atgames legends flashback out which has Famicom Tetris
>> built
>> |>> in. This guy has been playing it for about hour
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>> |>> Not a single game but playing over and over.
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>> |>> Anyone who has played it knows it is a terrible version of the game compared
>> to
> |>> pretty
>> |>> much every other console version. And yet he plays. And plays.
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> |>>
> |>> Maybe he's punishing himself. Otherwise, I just don't get it.
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>> Right? The system also has Tetris Plus 2 which is by every measure a better game.
>> Additionally we had Tetris Effect, Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2, Nintendo Tetris
> for
>> NES, Tetris The Grand Master, Tetris Battle Gaiden, Gameboy Tetris for Switch
> Online,
>> and if he had brought a DS or 3DS we could have fired up a wireless game of Tetris
>> DS with him!
>>
>> But instead it was Famicom Tetris.
>>
>
> Maybe he's played a lot of the other versions, but he's never seen the Famicom version?
>
> I don't know much about Tetris, but I like to play different versions of games I
> enjoy, including the bad ones.
If you have played any other version of Tetris besides maybe the earliest computer versions, even just a few minutes of Famicom Tetris would be enough to make you want to play any of those other versions instead. He played for at least an hour and a half, right up until a few minutes before the Tetris tournament started. (He did not participate in the tournament.)