davetansley

joined 1 year ago
[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, the highlight of the show for me was definitely the blindfold Breath of the Wild run... amazing!

Also enjoyed glitchless Elden Ring.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

At least in the case of the Tetris GB, there was no battery save in that cartridge. It really was a case of losing your score after every power off.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

It's a Miyoo Mini Plus... a relatively cheap ($60) Chinese Linux device.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

It's actually a Miyoo Mini Plus... a fairly cheap ($60) Chinese Linux based console for playing retro games. I definitely recommend it.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago
[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, I just tried this last night after talking about GB Tetris. It really is awesome!

 

Gameboy Tetris wasn't the first Tetris I played (that was Mirrorsoft Tetris on the ZX Spectrum, with its spooky AY theme music), but it is the Tetris I always go back to.

For such an early GB game, it feels almost perfect. A compelling combination of apparent simplicity and hidden depth, it was (and still is) ideal to pick up and play for five minutes at a time. I think it is fair to say that the GB wouldn't have done half as well without Tetris.

Sure, it lacks features that modern Tetris implementations have - like hold, or being able to rotate infinitely in place, or fancy flashing backdrops - but it seems somehow better for that. Tetris in its purest form, just one more go, for ever and ever.

What are your memories of GB Tetris? Do you still play it? Do you think it holds up? What is your go-to Tetris?

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels almost petty to mention, but my main problem with gaming these days is choice... there's just too much. I have a SteamDeck packed with over a decade of Humble Bundles and giveaways. I have a MiSTer FPGA with 10,000 retro games. I have subscriptions throwing me more games in a month than I could play in a year... and amid all that choice, I found I was playing none of it.

So I've taken steps. On retro devices, I've taken to removing the full ROM sets (or hiding them from view) and just selecting a handful of games that I used to own, or definitely want to play. In Steam, I've started a collection list of games I'm interested in and I only ever pick from that.

And, somehow, it works. Seeing only three or four games to choose from somehow short circuits that panic response of seeing three or four thousand. It's easier to fixate on a game, or to find something to genuinely enjoy about a title that may not be that perfect experience otherwise, rather than discarding it quickly and moving on to the next fleeting thrill.