Comment on Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release—the start of a global obsession

TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here, this exhaustively explains wall kicks and how they affect basic play in Tetris:

  tetris.wiki/Wall_kick

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing a sort of pivot where you leverage a piece’s shape to force it center-wards while it drops by turning it at the right time.

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  • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure you’re talking about a floor kick…?

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe. I’ve never so much as looked up a guide, so I’m not familiar with the names. It was just a guess for before OP chimed in

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      • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t know at first either!

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