Tetris
 

I've always been good at Tetris. I got my start on the Game Boy in... I think it was 1992? I got into TetriNET around 2000; a friend of mine was, at the time, the champion of a Chicago city Tetris tournament. and I was able to beat him with some effort. When I'm really pushing hard at it I can sustain somewhere around 90 PPM. I'm not anywhere close to being among the best in the world, but my Arena ranking in Tetris Friends is low Platinum-tier.

And now Tetris 99 has come out on Nintendo Switch.

https://twitter.com/codahighland/sta...999040/video/1

I think I'm doing pretty well so far!

Tetris is my favorite game of all time!!!
I remember playing with handheld tetris while everyone else had gameboys |D

I like Tetris. :] It's a great classic game!
I'm not very good at it. I was never really good at it. <x}
But on Kinsaki, the previous avatar community I was part of, :D the site builders included a version of Tetris in their games and could earn site monies for playing, and the higher you scored the more you got! Of course I got a good amount, but I could only play for points once a day.
It even played the old Tetris themes. ^-^

I enjoy a bit of tetris every so often, if I'm honest.

I tried Tetris 99 on the Switch. :} It is fun! I'm no good at it but it's fun!
X] hehe, my best is 12th place out of 100 I think. <:} So...I'm not good at it but I'm not terrible?? *shruuu-uug?*

Ahem. That is all.

:D Ah omg! I remember that! I didn't remember what the video was called but thanks Espy for finding it! <xp

I don't think I ever knew the title, but my boss when I worked for Google decided to throw it up on the big TV in the office one time. XD

>X} "I am the man who arranges the bloks!"

Your...your boss wouldn’t happen to have been a CMU alumni, would they?

Oh, forgot about this too. <x} Holy hell this sketch is 9 years old!
"Line Piece!"

I haven't the foggiest. I have my doubts but it's not impossible. Why do you ask?

EDIT: Re: "line piece" -- I would have put the first of those line pieces horizontally on the right and used the next three to fill the gaps on the left. Problem solved.

8< I am a noob at Tetris after all.. haha xD you are clearly more experienced with Tetris than I could ever be! :] And I've played Tetris in my childhood. Then again, I'm pretty much a novice at best anyways, because I don't have very much by means of block-solving skills to begin with, ahah! I love puzzle games but I suck at them too. >u>;

You ever play, Bejeweled?

Yeah, I'm not a huge Bejeweled fan. I prefer more dynamic puzzle games, like Puzzle and Dragons. Imagine Bejeweled, except instead of switching two pieces around for your move, you can pick up a piece and drag it around, switching it with each piece along the way in turn, and then when you let go of the piece it triggers any 3-in-a-row matches on the board.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCX-Tz8KpXE (Why yes it is an old game. It's the game that defined the modern mobile RPG genre.)

:] Hmm, kind of like Chuzzle then. Chuzzle was a game like that except you could only move rows of fluffy Chuzzles either horizontally or vertically to match colors.

I played Chuzzle for a while back in the day. Chuzzle is kinda like Yoshi's Cookie.

:D Ayyy! Somebody else knows Chuzzle?! I played Chuzzle back when Windows Vista was all the rage, xD Hahaha, nice!

Although the game I enjoyed the most was Luxor 3. >w< It was my favorite favorite and I was pretty good at it I think. :] Or maybe it was just persistence because I wouldn't give up after losing over and over? x'D I got to advanced levels and all the power-ups, along with the ability to point and shoot with a mouse horizontally with sharp speed. >x}

I played Chuzzle because it was available for Mac. XD

Hahaha! X'D Omg, that's even better!

I used to actually play Tetris on my dad's Razor flip phone. x'D I'd run that battery down if he didn't keep an eye on me, and eventually I never got to play it again because he never let me borrow his phone to play haha!

Games like Tetris make me anxious. It's why I suck at Yoshi on NES. I can only get to level five on the latter.

I'm not very good at Yoshi. I could probably get good if I tried, but the overall puzzle mechanics just aren't compelling to me. Yoshi's Cookie is way better.

I had Yoshi Topsy-Turvy at some point in time. Could probably find it again if I looked hard enough.

Coda, I don't have Yoshi's cookie and I only have Yoshi because I have (or at least my son's Nintendo switch account) has the online subscription and Yoshi is on the NES emulator that online subscribers can download.

Espy, oooh, I've never played that one either. Pft. And I call myself a Yoshi fan. ; D

Seriously though, my son and I play things like Yoshi's Woolly World together. I haven't played Yoshi games in so long until he asked for it for his birthday a couple of years ago.

Tetris always kicks my butt D:

:] I used to be pretty good at Mahjong. It was a less exciting than Tetris, buuuut I had the patience for it. -u-

Actual mahjong, or mahjong solitaire? They're completely different games that are played with the same pieces (sort of like comparing poker to klondike solitaire).

My son and I were just playing Puyo Puyo Tetris. It was a surprisingly even match-up -- he's better at Puyo Puyo than I am, but I'm better at Tetris than he is. In versus mode, I kick his butt: I'm better at Tetris than he is at Puyo Puyo, and the game balance between the two modes isn't calibrated for people with my Tetris skill level (a fast Tetris player can unload a lot of damage in a big hurry, but a fast Puyo Puyo player is constrained by the speed of the animations).

But in Swap mode? THAT got interesting. I'm good enough at Puyo Puyo and he's good enough at Tetris that it doesn't come down to the coin flip of the game mode to determine who wins.

I've never been too great at Tetris, and the first time I sort of tried was with the board game, since we never had video games in my house until I was 12. I would just try and arrange the pieces into a perfect rectangle with no gaps. The pieces made up the board rectangle with one extra square. Never did really know how the game was supposed to work.

The history of Tetris is kind of interesting. It also still ranks (apparently) as the most popular video game of all time, attributed to it's accessibility. A few bits on a chip and you have a game. It was the first game I tried to play on my first cell phone.

Is Mahjong Solitaire the game where you just match the tiles and they disappear? o-o

Or is it the one you play with a group of four or more with it's actual rules? ...hold on. Just realized that was a stupid question. x'}
Aaah! Of course! I played Mahjong solitaire. Because I played it solitary all the time. ;u; Ah well.

I've played actual mahjong... I think twice? There was a guy from China at my last job that liked to bring it to team gatherings. It makes poker look simplistic by comparison; there's so much to keep track of.

I... can't stand mahjong. Too noisy. I like games that are quiet. So that I can think. ...Chinese chess is nice.

I have played tetris under the sun lol. original tetris, tetris attack, n64 tetrisphere, you name it ive probably played it lolol

One of my coworkers challenged me to Tetris. Everyone who had seen him play said he was amazingly good.

i... um... I beat him 10 games out of 13. XD

https://jstris.jezevec10.com/ -- since Tetris Friends has been shut down, this is as far as I can tell the next-best thing. If you'd like to try me, we can figure out a time to play.

i'd love to play tetris with you.

mind you, i still have no idea how to do a t spin.

I'm not very good at T-spins, myself.

WHEN DID IT SHUT DOWN

what the heck is a t spin

It shut down at around the same time that Tetris 99 picked up game modes beyond just battle royale... which is to say, recently.

A T-spin was originally a game mechanics exploit that would let you rotate a T piece into a place under an overhang that it wouldn't normally be able to reach. Basically, if a rotation (possibly also including gravity and wall kicks) would put the piece in a legal place, then the piece would go there, even if it would have to have clipped through another block if the rotation were smoothly animated instead of a sharp 90-degree snap. This enables some surprisingly nuanced gameplay, so instead of being patched out it was promoted to an actual feature. (I'm sure the fact that patching it out would have been hard probably also had something to do with it.)

Clearing a line with a T-spin counts for twice as many points and twice as much multiplayer trash. This means that the most valuable move in the game is a T-spin triple: if you slip a T piece into a hole that lets it clear three lines at once, it's worth 1.5x as much as a Tetris.

The T-spin technique can be used with any block (except O, because O blocks don't meaningfully rotate) but only T gives a bonus.

GEEZ, the jstris community is way better than the Tetris 99 community. I've not done better than 2nd place.

There's... no way to do that legally, though...?

T-spin doubles are easy to explain. Imagine this setup:


XX*
X.**X
XX*XX
XXXXX


If you rotate right, the T will snap into place and clear two lines. (If you rotate LEFT it'll snap down too but it'll only clear one line and leave a blocked-off hole... probably shouldn't do that.)

T-spin triples are definitely harder to spot if you don't know about them in advance. Here's the typical setup:


XX*
X***
X.XX
X..X
X.XX
XXXX


If you rotate clockwise here, the only valid place for the piece to come to rest would be inside the T-shaped hole.

(EDIT: Finally got a 1st place.)

welp, time to play jstris and give it a go. maybe get addicted to it, who knows.