Tetris Axis: Like Tetris DS, But Less Necessary
Did you know there's a new Tetris game out for the 3DS? Tetris Axis is the newest Tetris game available, and it brings 3D graphics to the block-dropping series. I know, when you think of 3D and Tetris, you think of those horrible 3D Tetris games that were hard to control on the PC. Well, don't worry. The 3D isn't a game-crippling change of perspective that shows why Tetris only works on a two-dimensional plane, it's only an incredible unnecessary effect that shows why Tetris only works on a two-dimensional plane.
Tetris Axis is a decent compilation of Tetris game types developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo, but compared to the stellar (and actually Nintendo-themed) Tetris DS, it falls flat. The two best things I can say about Tetris Axis is that it has regular Tetris and that's always fun, and it's only $30.
History of the USSR… To Tetris’ A-Type Music
This is a year old, but not enough people have seen it. It's completely brilliant, retelling the entire history of the USSR from before the October Revolution to post-communism kleptocracy, to the Tetris theme.
I am the man who arranges the blocks...
Fun Fact: Hexic, Son of Tetris
Alexei Patjinov is best known for creating Tetris, but he also created the tile-rotating game Hexic, which became popular thanks to MSN.
It's not quite as infectious as Tetris. Or Dr. Mario. Or Lumines. Or Bejeweled...
Top 15 games that still aren’t on the Virtual Console yet
When Nintendo first announced the Virtual Console, it seemed like a brilliant idea. The company would re-release the greatest games on its 8-, 16-, and 64-bit systems for download, letting us rebuild our childhood gaming libraries on a single memory card and play all of our favorite old-school games on the Wii. Every week would see a handful of classic games released on the Virtual Console, ready for download.
Four years later, the Virtual Console offers over 360 games (in North America) from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Turbografix-16, Neo Geo, and even the Sega Master System and Commodore 64. It sounds like a lot, until you realize the NES and SNES had over 700 games each.
The Virtual Console still has a lot of big holes in its library, and it looks like Nintendo isn't trying very hard to fill them. These days we're lucky to see one game come out on the VC per week, and that game can range from the obscure and uninteresting (this week's Ufouria: THe Saga) to the vaguely fun but pales in comparison to other titles (Aero the Acrobat).
Here are the 15 most notable games missing from the Wii Virtual Console.
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