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Pac-Man or Tetris?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,079 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    I never really got into Pacman, probably because I was never much good at it :). Tetris on the other hand I loved. It was always a feeling of a job well done when I sent one of those long vertical pieces into a gap thereby clearing 4 lines in one go.

    The version of Tetris I remember most fondly is Tetrolis. It's probably only remarkable because it supported the Gravis Ultrasound and had a two player mode.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I was always good at Tetris, I got it along with my original Gameboy at launch and was always to be seen playing it, the music never really meant much as, to save on battery power, I played with the sound always turned down, except for the little band playing and the shuttle launch at the end, then I turned it up!
    I seem to remember playing a lot of Lemmings on the GB as well, no wonder I have glasses, given I was staring intently at such small sprites on a smally blurry greeny/yellowy screen!

    But, again, Pacman is so, well, amazing, the main character is an icon, heck, so are the ghosts and even the maze!
    In fact I reckon a lot of gamers could draw the Pacman maze from memory!
    Now that implies genius!
    And the sounds, they are a beacon for thousands upon thousands of retrogamers, who only have to try to pass an arcade, hear the attract theme and are then compelled to go in and have a quick go, then get as far as the 3rd level and lose all their lives!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭NeoKubrick


    It has to be Tetris.

    Read this really interesting article:

    http://bsixcentdouze.free.fr/tc/tgm-en/tgm.html


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