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Article #8881Re: Welltris
From: Nick Jackiw
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1989 15:43
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1989 15:43
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mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes:
>
> Has anybody seen Welltris (the 3-D version of Tetris) for the Mac? Is
> it worth the sleepless nights, the staring, bloodshot eyes, the $19 from
> MacConnection?
>
I called MacConnection on Thursday of last week (mere *instants* after
getting my latest catalog :-)); and asked about Welltris. Unfortunately,
Welltris shouldn't have been included in that catalog, as Spectrum
Holobyte is planning a February or March release. (The PC version is
due out any day now--hence the mixup.)
As far as I can reconstruct from the advertisement, you are still playing
an essentially 2-d game of Tetris, except there are four simultaneous
playing fields going on linked side-to-side with wrap-around (the four
walls of a rectangular well). Presumably one must fill in all four
walls of bricks before they slide down the well.
Sort of like Tetris combined with the old arcade game, Tempest. A real
review will be forthcoming in February or March. $19 for a game can't be
beat.
-Nick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!swatsun!jackiw From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Welltris Summary: Welltris not out yet Keywords: Welltris, games Message-ID: <1989Dec4.154324.8199@cs.swarthmore.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 15:43:24 GMT References: <4ZRiTDS00Uh_42AFx=@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA Lines: 31