{"id":124740,"date":"2024-11-11T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124740"},"modified":"2024-11-11T22:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:02:16","slug":"tetris-forever-review-video-game-history-falls-into-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124740","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Forever review: video game history falls into place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">For such a simple game, <em>Tetris<\/em> has a wild history. Developed in the mid-1980s by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union, <em>Tetris<\/em>\u2019 global expansion involved a complex web of software copyright, clandestine meetings, handshake deals, and someone stretching a tourist visa to the very limits. It\u2019s a story that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23650577\/apple-tetris-movie-taron-egerton-review\">inspired a feature film<\/a> \u2014 but it might be best explored in <em>Tetris Forever<\/em>, the latest retro game collection from Digital Eclipse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The studio has made a name for itself with its interactive documentary format. The idea is that, instead of just presenting a bunch of games and supplementary material and leaving it to players to sort through it, the collections put everything into a timeline you can explore in chronological order. This structure adds context to the games so that you have an understanding of why they\u2019re important or interesting before you play them. The format has been used to tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23451349\/atari-50-review-xbox-playstation-switch-steam\">the story of Atari\u2019s first five decades<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23848883\/karateka-making-of-digital-eclipse-game-preservation\">how Jordan Mechner developed <em>Karateka<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">It\u2019s also ideally suited for the story of <em>Tetris<\/em>. Like its past collections, Digital Eclipse uses a combination of short documentary-style videos, photos, magazine and advertising scans, and the games themselves, and puts them on a timeline. In this case, you start out watching interviews with Pajitnov about his early life and how he first came up with and developed the concept for <em>Tetris<\/em>. Then you can play the very first version, made up of ASCII symbols, which was available on a Soviet computer called the Electronika 60.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">From there, the story expands as various figures swoop in to take <em>Tetris<\/em> to the rest of the world, including Pajitnov\u2019s lifelong friend Henk Rogers, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henk_Rogers\">his own fascinating backstory<\/a>. As with all of its releases, Digital Eclipse expertly weaves these storylines together, showing players the importance of each beat in the history of <em>Tetris<\/em>. It\u2019s augmented by a few important voices \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/31\/18047826\/tetris-effect-tetsuya-mizuguchi-interview-ps4-vr\"><em>Tetris Effect<\/em> designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi<\/a> \u2014 who explain the game\u2019s cultural impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">What also makes it work is that <em>Tetris Forever<\/em> is just a great collection of <em>Tetris<\/em> games. It features 18 games, including some that were never widely released. Now, there are some notable omissions, namely the iconic original Game Boy version, but the collection gets around this in a few ways. First off, it includes an incredible array of variants that show the many ways Pajitnov and other designers tried to build on the original concept. (My personal favorite is <em>Magicaliss<\/em>, which came bundled with <em>Super Tetris 3<\/em> and adds some clever puzzles and a very metal fantasy theme.) Then there\u2019s an unofficial Game Boy version that looks, sounds, and plays like the original, even if it doesn\u2019t have the actual Nintendo license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">There\u2019s also a brand-new version of the game called <em>Tetris Time Warp<\/em>. It starts out like a slick, modern rendition of the game, but every so often will literally warp you back in time briefly, reskinning the game to look like one of the many older variants, and introducing some new challenge that you only have a few moments to complete. Then you\u2019re whisked back to the present. Honestly, I\u2019d buy <em>Tetris Time Warp<\/em> on its own. But as part of this collection, it\u2019s just an added bonus on top of a great group of classic interpretations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\"><small>Tetris Forever <em>launches on November 12th on PC, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/11\/24291537\/tetris-forever-review-ps5-switch-pc-xbox\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For such a simple game, Tetris has a wild history. 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