recommend it if you're a tetris weirdo, but i will never really love to play this verison, yet i love returning to it every now and then.

this is my go-to tetris pallete cleanser when i'm fully in tetris brain, something that hasn't been the case for a little over a year now. this era of tetris is quite fascinating, and of all console versions of tetris, this feels the most like a home computer version with its single rotation, only hard drop and less-conventional lives system. the controls feel as if they were intended to be mapped to arrow keys where a player could have their fingers on multiple separate digital actuators at all times.

this era around the late 80's was probably the most interesting period in the overall splintering and iteration of tetris as it was unleashed up on the world, they were all just learning how to cook up those quadruple rectangles and it resulted in a genuine mechanical variety that unfortunately isn't found in any tetris released in the current era. i have no idea what BPS was even trying to do here, still feels as if they're in the progress of figure out how to make tetris work on a pad. it is of zero surpise that that shortly after this, BPS would devise their own system with lock delay as a core principle of tetromino arrangement. one of the the strains of tetris that BPS would, towards the end of the 90's, overcook and would demand that to be the only tetris dish served. BPS's impending near-strangulation of tetris started here, and on many days, i would rather play this over NEStris. thankfully BPS would figure out how to cook it just right for a bit in their successor to this one (plus bombliss!)

fascinating version of Tetris for the controls alone. the down button rotates the pieces while the A button hard drops them, there's no soft drop at all in this version so you really have to pay attention to make sure you don't drop your Tetrominos in the wrong spot while may be annoying for some people, I think it adds a neat way to strategize as well as forcing you to pay attention to what's going on. after you get used to the controls it's actually a pretty easy version of Tetris, you have a set of Lines to clear and everytime you do so you get a score tally for a breather then when the gameplay begins again everything is cleared, at least until the later levels where they drop some blocks you have to clear but it's not that much. on top of that Level 0 is very slow and the later levels aren't as fast as you'd expect them to be so I'd recommend just starting with the max Level if you're already familiar with Tetris, yeah the speed's that slow. cool version, not sure if I'll be visiting it again often but it was a neat experience.

shoutouts to Technotris and its weird buzzing in the background, has some good remixes as well

Solid rendition of Tetris, though the controls are a bit weird and the game is a bit easy. You use down to rotate the blocks and A to hard drop only, no soft dropping. It absolutely takes some getting used to if you've played any other tetris game, but once its down the game is tetris as always. The blocks don't really fall that fast even at the highest speed, and the random piece RNG isn't too punishing, so it is a pretty easy clear for any tetris expert as long as you get used to the controls. That being said, I can't give this a super high rec when there's Tengen and Nintendo tetris on the exact same system.