• nucleative@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    After reading this I thought there must be a nice and simple Tetris game in the play store. Boy was I wrong. I think some guy has a “block puzzle” empire and has just rereleased the same tetris clone game a hundred times. And official Tetris is a total abomination of unlocks and achievements.

    Bummer.

    • Ludrol@szmer.info
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      There are three main Tetris games as far as playability goes.
      Classic Tetris for NES where you play with your foot
      Tetris effect where handling and graphics are decent
      Tetr.io where speed is everything

      Notable mentions
      Tetris 99 - tetris for Nintendo switch
      PuyoPuyo tetris - sometimes you play puyopuyo sometimes you play tetris

      Everything else is basically irrelevant

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I went through a similar thing, conclusion I came to was that as Tetris is so popular, the owners of the IP have it on lockdown… it is quite a specific IP that’s kinda hard to do something similar-but-the-same.

      Options I came up with were pirating a copy, or xbox game pass (iirc Tetris Effect is available there). Or… are there any Gameboy emulators that run on mobile?

      • CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        There’s as many gb emulators as possible, for a while i used nostalgia emulator (great ui and functional save state feature) but you can also run retroarch and other multiemulators. The one thing you need is the rom, but that is another story.

    • Doxatek@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      You can play regular Tetris for free on Tetris website on a laptop or something. I agree the app version is abominable

      • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’m glad I decided to re-read the comments on this, as someone with aphantasia who really struggles with spatial stuff… WHAT THE FUCK, you weren’t exaggerating haha