Posted by Jeurja on May 30, 2019 at 16:57:42 EST in reply to Tetris is my favorite WSC game, maybe even my favorite version of Tetris. I played it a lot last summer on the deck at sunset. I don't have a WonderSwan Crystal, so I have to catch the light just right to bring out how nice it is. (The Worm Light is a bit clumsy in vertical, so I don't reach for it here.) Tetris has a really snappy feel for a Tetris of that era: 2002, I think late in the WSC catalog. Some cool little options: saves high scores, music on or off. Neat explosive sound effects for WonderSwan. It sounds as if it were Amiga public domain (a good thing!). I remember reading it was cheaper than most WSC titles, so I think they were marketing it to old or casual gamers (sort of like The Tetris or The Invader on PSX?). It's all in English language, as you know. It's really expensive on eBay, but I found it for a normal price, buried in a lot by searching through all new WonderSwan auctions for a couple weeks. I'm not a "collector," so maybe it's easy to find with a bit of effort. I bought it to play it, so I didn't care that mine didn't have the box. It did have the manual, though, which isn't in English. I noticed Tetris is backward compatible with regular B&W WonderSwan. If you have a B&W machine, would you test it out on it, and let me know if it's easier to see in B&W? I can't trick the WSC into displaying dual-mode carts in B&W, though regular B&W carts always display much crisper/more visible on the WSC than color carts do (so much so that I prefer playing B&W games). There's a shop in my megalopolis that has a number of affordable B&W machines, so I'd buy one if it makes Tetris better. I compared the NGPC screen to the WSC screen recently, and it's night and day: NGPC is so much easier to see than WSC when playing color games. However, B&W games on the WSC are easier to see than color games on the NGPC (I don't have any B&W/NGP games to test). All that said, I found a cart-only Korean version of Tetris DS recently in Bellevue, and through much of the year, it's hard to beat; I love its 2-player 1-cart wireless battle mode. But when summer comes around, I'm all about WSC Tetris. (n/t) from Mike Chicago.
Right on! And you're making me want to go play it RIGHT NOW.
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