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'First Person Tetris' May Be Fun, But Hazardous to Your Health

by JP Mangalindan on January 14, 2010 at 04:40 PM

Ever since Alexey Pajitnov first assembled the game code back in the 1984, there have been countless versions of 'Tetris' introduced to countless game consoles. With each iteration, developers tried different takes on the original: 'The Next Tetris' included multiple piece previews; 'Tetris: The Grand Master' first allowed you to rotate pieces before they actually showed up on the main screen, and 'Tetris DS' offered a 'Metroid'-themed "Catch Mode," where you rotated entire stacks in lieu of individual pieces.

The new free Web game 'First-Person Tetris' gets high marks for its sheer simplicity. Instead of rotating a piece, the tap of a key rotates your perspective (thus, the 'first-person'). There's only one background (a late '80s-style living room) and four music selections, but the gameplay remains intact. And if you somehow manage to make it longer than 15 minutes without getting a serious case of vertigo, try your hand at the nigh impossible "Night Mode," which presents the pieces against a completely black screen and offers no warning of when they'll hit the bottom. If that doesn't have you dusting off the ol' Game Boy in the back of your closet, we don't know what will. [From: First-Person Tetris via The Daily What]

Tags: online gaming, OnlineGaming, tetris, Tetris DS, TetrisDs, timewasters, top, videogames

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