So it is that Tetris DS has five entirely new gameplay modes, and you can play it with nine other people using just one copy or go on the Internet and play against friends or complete strangers.īefore we get onto the new stuff though, it's worth paying tribute to old-days Tetris, which is offered here as "Standard" mode - and it's doubly worth mentioning because old-days Tetris isn't quite the same as it was 20 years ago.įor a start, it now has Mario, Link, Samus and other Nintendo pals dancing around on the top screen while you try and create rows by organising blocks as they descend down the rectangular play area. Perhaps it's because Nintendo ran out of stuff in the cupboard, perhaps it's because Sony provoked them, but whatever the reason, an old name means a new game with new thinking behind it, and we're not arguing. It was even worse when it came to multiplayer - GBA games could happily support single-cartridge multiplayer, but Nintendo and its friends went for "wring another £30 out of them" instead, and didn't bother with it most of the time. 3, Yoshi's Island, Zelda 3 and a nice new broom through the post every other month, but you lot were getting ripped off, frankly, and you knew it. It was jolly nice for reviewers getting Mario Bros.
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Those were the dark days of GBA (very dark days unless you had a light add-on) when Nintendo's portable gaming strategy was "look in cupboard, put in new box, charge £30". (And, I suppose, "What the hell is a DS?") "There they go again." "Another pointless cash-in." Etc. Not so long ago, seeing "Tetris DS" on the release calendar would have provoked a pretty uniform response.
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