Looking for a good modern Tetris

ahnslaught · Post by **ahnslaught** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:17 pm

While it's not Tetris, how about Lumines Plus on the PS2? I got it last week, and having never played it before, I'm having a great time. While it's a average/below average port, it has a 2P mode, and the core game is fun.

Takes a different type of strategy than Tetris, but that's half the fun. Oh, and much better sound and general presentation, if you're into slick things.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:55 pm

Tetris DS's push mode is the best way to play Tetris with 2 players ever. Worth the 30 bucks alone. Blah blah blah infinite rotation blah blah blah.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:19 pm

theevilfunkster wrote:Sega Tetris on DC is great, ace 2 player modes.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that one and it's one the few Tetrises I own, haha. You're right too, it's a really fun game 2player wise and otherwise as I deem, plays familar to TGM and perhaps to a lesser the Tetris Collection games.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:01 pm

D wrote:Great thread. There's Sakura Card Captor feat. tetris for the PS which is made by Arika, the folks who make the grandmaster arcade pcb's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XeOAk3sEZQ.
This fits the profile perfectly and can get really hectic.

That Card Captor Sakura Tetris has music and voices from the anime! Cool!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:16 pm

not traditional tetris but i really like risky challenge and tetris 2+

adds a bit of lemmings to the mix..

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:19 pm

FatCobra wrote:
SFKhoa wrote:When your piece hits the ground, you can keep rotating to keep the piece from "sticking" to the ground and moving on to the next piece.
That does sound bad in theory, but I can see moments when that could be useful. Plus, I hate it when I'm rotating a piece and it sticks in the wrong direction.

While most people say that's a bad concept, it actually has potential to give you trouble in later levels, especially when some pieces can't "climb" over a certain set of blocks and you're only given a certain space to put it...so it does mess up eventually. It usually happens around Level 14-15 or so.

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:19 pm

Tetris worlds gave you infinite rotation and the most geenrous slidign system ever made.

Yet to actually progress in the game, you have to NOT USE iT, because you must act fast to get the "rank up" that lets you start the next game on a higher level , and work wtowards winning.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:05 pm

"Tetris & Dr. Mario" on SNES is a very good Tetris port. It has the original Tetris and Dr.Mario games with enhanced sound and graphics, offers two player mode and has that pretty funny mixed match mode.

If you would like to try a new but amazing puzzle game try Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon), which hasn't anything in common with Tetris, despite the name. The game is absolutely motivating and challenging, has a lot of useful one player modes and can easily be played for months in versus. This gameconcept is easy to pick up, but hard to master. I highly reccomend this one.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:29 pm

Edge wrote:"Tetris & Dr. Mario" on SNES is a very good Tetris port. It has the original Tetris and Dr.Mario games with enhanced sound and graphics, offers two player mode and has that pretty funny mixed match mode.

If you would like to try a new but amazing puzzle game try Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon), which hasn't anything in common with Tetris, despite the name. The game is absolutely motivating and challenging, has a lot of useful one player modes and can easily be played for months in versus. This gameconcept is easy to pick up, but hard to master. I highly reccomend this one.

I remember Tetris Attack, nothing like a Tetris at all, and WTF was up with the Yoshi Theme? Great game though. When I played Meteos, I kept thinking, "This is similar to Tetris Attack, except the blocks fly off instead of simply vanishing."

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:56 am

aventus wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgoGPl0Dn0

This Tetris-Version, has it been ported to any platform? Or a similar game?
I really like the way the blocks crush and explode, also the sound-effects of it all.

Tetris Grand Master 2 lacks a home port, but the Xbox 360 has Tetris Grand Master Ace which is loosely based on TGM3. Arika changed some things around from TGM3 to make it a different game from the arcade (to avoid cutting into operators' revenues?).

TGM-Ace's time attack mode requires you to clear 10 lines to move up a level, as you try to beat an Outrun style checkpoint timer. You're better off to use an arcade stick for this game- the 360 D-Pad truly sucks for it. There are 2 high speed modes and a Big mode in addition to the normal one.

For a doujin Tetris clone that lets you use TGM series rules, get Heboris and its unofficial expansion pack.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:20 pm

I just found out about the TGM series from watching this video. Pretty impressive, particularly the second half and ending.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:27 pm

Why would anyone need another puzzle game other than Tetris attack/Panel de Pon/ Pokemon Puzzle League?

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:51 pm

Because other puzzle games are awesome.

Regulus · Post by **Regulus** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:10 pm

FatCobra wrote:I remember Tetris Attack, nothing like a Tetris at all, and WTF was up with the Yoshi Theme? Great game though. When I played Meteos, I kept thinking, "This is similar to Tetris Attack, except the blocks fly off instead of simply vanishing."

Heh, the Yoshi theme was there because NoA didn't think that the Fairy theme of the original Japanese release would do all that well in America.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:16 pm

@Ceph

All you need is this:

http://infotech.rim.zenno.info/products ... /download/

Tetris meets Mathematics!

Post by **undamned** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:44 pm

D wrote:Great thread. There's Sakura Card Captor feat. tetris for the PS which is made by Arika, the folks who make the grandmaster arcade pcb's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XeOAk3sEZQ.
This fits the profile perfectly and can get really hectic. The official page is still online and has a superplay to download that'll blow your socks.

Greg has this and it's pretty fun. I think he even has a poster on his wall for it.
-ud

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:34 pm

Tetrinet2 is, in my opinion, the best current incarnation of Tetris out there.

Competitve, innovative, loads of fun, and best of all, free.

Post by **undamned** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:41 pm

I used to play Tetrinet a bit in college

A blast, for sure

-ud

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:46 am

How about this one???

PROTIP: set it for full-screen mode.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:38 am

Necronopticous wrote:Tetrinet2 is, in my opinion, the best current incarnation of Tetris out there.

Competitve, innovative, loads of fun, and best of all, free.

There's a second game? I was going to end the thread with Tetrinet, but if there's another one that's even better, go with that.

Is the music in 2 as good as the ... one song from 1? Because that song freaking rocked.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:12 am

Triple Lei wrote:
I like Tetris DS myself because of the bonuses for T-Spins (in fact, you can look at my YouTube profile for some Tetris DS vids)... but right now Lockjaw is the best Tetris game. Read up on Tetris and Lockjaw at Tetris Concept, and tell 'em Triple Lei sent ya!

I am by no means a hardcore Tetris player or anything, but I recall some people complaining that you get more points for a t-spin than a Tetris, which makes aiming for Tetrises pointless, changing the playing strategy to something much harder to pull off.

The infinite spinning (which, btw, isn´t a bug or anything, but a part of the Tetris Guidelines) wouldn´t bother me so much if they had included a simple 20 Lines or Ultra mode in Tetris DS. I mean, that would have taken maybe 5 minutes of extra programming, instead we got throwaway gimmick modes. Of all the things, Push Mode is propably the best thing about Tetris DS, and HUGE fun in two player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZKvyGb240

EDIT:

szycag wrote:Tetris DS's push mode is the best way to play Tetris with 2 players ever. Worth the 30 bucks alone. Blah blah blah infinite rotation blah blah blah.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:05 am

FrederikJurk wrote: The infinite spinning (which, btw, isn´t a bug or anything, but a part of the Tetris Guidelines) wouldn´t bother me so much if they had included a simple 20 Lines or Ultra mode in Tetris DS.

It has line clear, which is similar to mode B in the GB Tetris. Not the same, but the Mission mode has a Time Trial.

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:35 pm

Speaking of Tetris.. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1104915&fr=

Japanese otaku are killing the gaming industry. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:35 am

Erinu wrote:Speaking of Tetris.. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1104915&fr=

Japanese otaku are killing the gaming industry. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES.

omg. that video is the greatest thing ever.

XP

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:38 am

I have finally seen the light of tetris, and it's not the tetris company's vision.

It is the TGM series.

Best tetris games in the universe.

And Heboris+unnoficial pack is where it's at on the PC. It has been voluntarily pulled by it's original developers, but it can still be found. SUch greatness must be preserved.

The TGM series is very well named. It's tetris,but designed specifically from the ground up for high level play.

If you just want to have fun, give tetris worlds a try.

But if you want to truly learn tetris, get Heboris NOW.

http://hebo.game-host.org/upload.cgi?mode=dl&file=20

download password is

hebo

the UE is included, and 3 different gfx engines to pick from.

The original Sega Tetris is TGM 0. No joke. it has ARE, lock delay, the 10 level speed break. everything. and Flash Point inspired the Sakura game, and Bloxeed inspired the versus mode.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:40 pm

Actually the video mentioned a couple posts back shows a guy KILLING TGM.

D · Post by D » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:52 pm

No love for Tetris Plus 2?
I love that, OK, it's no tourny contender, but very fun and addicting.
I had been looking for it for ages, because I like part 1 so much.

khoavuong · Post by **khoavuong** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:09 pm

I like to play classic Tetris, but with a slight twist in gameplay.

In the Atari arcade version of Tetris, there was a mode in which a single block would appear randomly on the top of the pile. It forced you to quickly restrategize in the time it takes the current piece to fall.

But the arcade version didn't have a marathon setting, so that mode ended quickly. Is there a version of Tetris out there that allows this?

D · Post by D » Mon May 24, 2010 9:50 am

Hi Ceph,

I just went through some old ebay shortcuts and I saw this:
http://cgi.ebay.nl/Tetris-Puzzle-SuperL ... 3ca867ddf9

This game is pretty rare. I got my copz from yahoo back in the days. I recommend this game. I love it.
Great game. heck youtube it before you buy.

ncp · Post by **ncp** » Tue May 25, 2010 5:03 am

Oh hey, an old thread relevant to my interests.

TGM2 Plus (usually just called TAP) is just so good. There's a few modes: Master (regular TGM, with grading + medals), Normal (for newbies), TGM+ (Master with junk rows on the bottom every so often), Doubles (2 players in one wider play field), and the infamous T.A. Death.

I've never played a version of Tetris with controls anywhere near as good as the TGM games. The grading system is really interesting if you do a little bit of research on the mechanics and such. Everything just plays so perfectly it's hard to imagine a better series.

shmups.system11.org

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