Goin’ back to the oldskool.

Seeing the Nintendo Wii launch this past week made me want to play some older Nintendo games again.

When I was a kid, my uncle had left us his NES, with two or three milk crates FULL of games for safe keeping while he traveled with his wife to Germany. Between me and Mom (Dad never wanted to touch the thing), we spent all day playing things like Duck Hunt (Mom’s favorite), Super Mario Bros., and The Adventures of Lolo.

Moving forward, my love of puzzle games grew, as well as light gun shooters to a lesser extent.
Tetris became my gaming crack while I was in middle and high school, and I fell in love with it as well as many offshoots and variants. When I had my own Nintendo 64, Tetrisphere was perhaps one of my absolute all time favorite games.

Then, I got on the Internet, and what I knew about Tetris was blown away by one thing:
Tetrinet.

Imagine a frantic six-way competition, fighting with cascading blocks.
Add in specials that can be targeted at a specific person to give them a disadvantage, or an advantage.

For a while, I was in deep love with Tetrinet.

It was a simple to play, easy to learn online playable game that works well even on Dial-up, which is what I was on a long time ago.

I still love Tetris, and its offspring, but it’s not so competetive there now.

So few people remember my old friend. ;(