Jeremy Parish

Virtual Boy Works #14: V-Tetris (Patreon)

Published:

2019-05-01 16:00:05

Imported:

2024-04

Tags:

video virtual boy virtual boy works

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Hmmm, yep, another Tetris game. But a completely different Tetris game than 3D-Tetris. Did Virtual Boy need two different takes on the same franchise? No, but at least that makes more sense than it having two different bowling games...

Repeat after me: What a weird little system!

Edit: There's a pretty huge factual error in this episode that I didn't realize until I was working on the Virtual Fishing episode concerning Locomotive Corp.—turns out there were two developers called Locomotive! I'll edit this to be correct in the public post, but lucky you: You get to enjoy extremely wrong information. Whoops.

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V-Tetris retrospective: Red dawn | Virtual Boy Works #14

We launch into Virtual Boy's Japan-exclusive line-up by heading back to the other Tetris game at the other end of the system's life: V-Tetris. This game is nothing at all like 3D-Tetris; for one thing, it's actually Tetris. V-Tetris does nothing to really take advantage of the hardware here, so it's a shame that this interpretation of the block-dropping classic has been locked to Virtual Boy—its special mode offers a unique and enjoyable take on the venerable favorite.