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For a belated celebration of Tetris' 40th birthday, here's a highly partisan look back at Tetris DS
A retrospective of Tetris DS, an underappreciated gem, in celebration of Tetris' 40th birthday.
Back in the day, using a weird Nintendo wi-fi gadget that plugged into a laptop, you could go online and play Tetris with people around the world, competitively. Looking back, though, this odd mode that required an additional doodad and delivered nothing but crushing defeat at the hands of Japanese Tetris masters may have also provided all my favourite memories of this weird, infuriating, brilliant game. I spent an evening last week, knowing the 40th was coming, looking through the loft in case I could find that weird wi-fi dongle, with the hope that if I could get it working, I might be able to go back to that early 2000s word of Japanese Tetris greats and play a few more games with them, the same way a radio and a solar storm allows Jim Caviezel to talk to his dead old dad Dennis Quaid in the underrated banger Frequency.
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