Indie Retro News: Tetris Championship Edition

Oh pleasure of joys, for those who beloved the 1984 recreation of Tetris or the 1989 recreation of Columns , you will be happy to know a model new puzzle overhaul of Tetris 2 by František Fuka has been launched for the ZX Spectrum. This wonderful recreation that was initially launched for the ZX Spectrum in 1990, has not solely been made extra appropriate for contemporary gamers who already performed NES Tetris, Tetris 99 and many others, however it encompasses a new scoring system, new colors and far rather more.

Some of the widespread video games of all time was a tile-matching, block rotating puzzle online game first launched in 1984 which grew to become an enormous hit on the Gameboy in 1989. It simply needed to be the basic ‘Tetris’; a recreation that precipitated many individuals to spend hours enjoying to the purpose of dependancy. Though we have had quite a few clones through the years a few of them good and a few of them quite dangerous, right now’s Tetris Champsion Version is one other Tetris you actually ought to be enjoying!

UPDATE : I’ve just lately been knowledgeable that Tetris Championship Version might have been up to date on itch io. Though I am undecided if it is the identical model because the one launched in 2020 going by the very fact they each say 1.0. The developer has famous all the modifications listed under.

* New Korobeiniki AY tune
* 50 FPS modes
* Kempston joystick assist
* you’ll be able to maintain left or proper key and piece will transfer repeatedly in that route (you needed to press these keys many instances earlier than);
* delicate drop applied;
* now you can rotate items to the proper (beforehand it was solely to the left);
* accordingly, Redefine Keys display screen has been modified;
* the randomizer has been drastically improved, now the identical frequency of all items is assured;
* scoring system has been modified: now it’s rather more worthwhile to wash a number of traces directly, especialy 4;
* the extent will increase when a certain quantity of traces is cleared (beforehand it didn’t change in any respect);
* the variety of ranges within the basic mode has been elevated: earlier, solely ranges 1-8 had been obtainable, now it is 0-9 by default and 10-19 with DROP key pressed;
* theoretically the variety of ranges will not be restricted;
* two tracks by František Fuka was changed by one other tracks by the identical creator;
* in Tetris 2 mode all ranges have been redone (now there are 50 of them, however there will likely be extra), and this mode was named Puzzle;
* cheat mode for Puzzle was added;
* Regular Tetris mode was renamed to Traditional;
* now you’ll be able to hearken to music together with 48k results (you had to decide on one or one other earlier than);
* colours of the items have been modified in accordance with trendy Tetris Pointers (though orange was changed with white, as a result of there is no such thing as a orange on the ZX Spectrum);
* items has texture now (just one for now, however there will likely be extra);
* Puzzle mode now has tougher ranges restricted by a timer (within the authentic, there was merely a transition to a brand new degree if time was out).