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Tetris Clone

Developer	Lab-Rat
Genre	Puzzle
Platform	Windows
Downloads	850
About: It seems that everyone does a Tetris (or Pacman, or Asteroids, or Snake) clone when they start out as a learning exercise, and I am no exception. There’s no exploding blocks, or ice world, or super power ups this is just a back-to-basics falling-block tidying-up game.

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It seems that everyone does a Tetris (or Pacman, or Asteroids, or Snake) clone when they start out as a learning exercise, and I am no exception. There are no exploding blocks, or ice world, or super power ups this is just a back-to-basics falling-block tidying-up game. My intention when making this game was to get as close to the feel of the Gameboy version of Tetris as possible. I hope I’ve achieved this and managed to create an equally enjoyable and addictive game.

Another part of my initial design was to make loading and playing this game as simple as the games preinstalled on Windows. For example the high scores are stored as plain text in the .ini file just like Minesweeper. So have fun winding up relations by beating their highest score with seeming ease.

As with any Tetris-a-like try to neatly stack the falling blocks to complete as many horizontal lines as possible before the arena fills up. Gain extra points for completing two, three or four lines simultaneously. Extra points can also be gained for aligning blocks and dropping them into position rapidly. Try to get your name on the high score table!

Move the falling block with left and right arrow keys. Rotate the block with up arrow key. Drop the block quickly into place using the down arrow key. Press Space to pause the game, this hides the game area so you cannot plan ahead while paused. For an extra challenge press Tab to hide the next block preview. Alternative clockwise and anticlockwise rotation on < and > keys.

System Requirements

DirectX 8
2Mb free HD space

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