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Conference rusure::nintendo

Title:Nintendo Game Systems
Notice:Please enter Super NES notes in Yuppy::Super_NES.
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Tue Oct 20 1987
Last Modified:Mon Feb 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:847
Total number of notes:11602

392.0. "TETRIS (Game Boy version)" by GSRC::WEST (Variables don't, Constants aren't) Sun Jan 07 1990 01:03

  I've got a question about the b-type game.

  When you've completed the required 25 lines the score screen appears and 
then it calculates your score by giving you points for SINGLES, DOUBLES,
TRIPLES and TETRIS'.  The problem I have is that if you add up all the
lines it don't equal 25.

  Does someone have some insight to this ??

  Thanx,

					-=> Jim <=-
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392.1totals aren't linesWILARD::DIONNETue Jan 09 1990 08:2013
    I was thinking about this last night and I think I have an answer.
    Each total for SINGLES, DOUBLES, TRIPLES and TETRIS' is just that,
    a total.  Remember for example a TRIPLE is three lines not 1 as   
    in the count for TRIPLES.  The totals shouldn't add up to 25, but 
    the lines for each catagory should.                               
                                                                      
    By the way, has anyone played the two player version?  We tried   
    it and it's funny to watch two people while they're playing.  The
    crying characters are cute and sometimes match the actual players.
                                                                      
    Reggie
392.2brain swapped outGSRC::WESTVariables don&#039;t, Constants aren&#039;tTue Jan 09 1990 10:4511
Duhhhhhhhhh....that makes sense...dain bramage setting in....thanx


  About the two player mode...my mother-n-law purchased her Game Boy
last week and the whole family now gets involved in two-player Tetris...

  Boy does it get competitive...especially when one clears more than one
line at a time !!

					-=> Jim <=-
392.3weird endingCURIE::BERNIERTue Feb 06 1990 19:1516
     
    
    			Tetris Tricks
    			==============
    
    
    	When playing the type 'B' game on level 9, there is a way
    	to end the game with one line left and mess with the screen.
    
    	Wait until you only have one line left to fill. At the very moment
    	that you drop a block to fill that last line and win the game,
    	hit 'start' to bring up the pause screen. The ending will appear
    	over it and look very weird .
    
    
    	Wayne
392.4Rockets & moreCURIE::BERNIERTue Feb 06 1990 19:2117
    
    
    	If you are a very talented player, you can make very special
    	things happen in both 'A' and 'B' games.
    
    	In the 'A' game if you score 100,000 points,youare treated to a
    	small rocket launching off into the stars. If you get 200,000
        points, you get a large one.
    
    	In type 'B' game, if you complete level 9, you get Russian dancers
        filling the screen. If you complete level 9 with the High at 5
    	you get to see the space shuttle take off!
    
    		Taken from Electronic Gaming Monthly
    
    
    	Wayne
392.5Clear extra linesGUIDUK::WISE_ERHHGTTG= 6 X 9 = 42 ?Thu May 24 1990 14:038
    	 If you are playing the type B game and you get down to one line
    left to clear try this.
    
    	 I then set up so that I clear more than one line with my final
    block. When you add up the line score you see that you get credit for
    the extra lines.
    
    	Eric
392.6tetris resetWIZZER::TRAVELLJohn T, UK VMS System SupportSun May 16 1993 12:517
This may be old news to you but i've found a worthless cheat to reset tetris 
without turning off your GB. Simply press select,A,B and then start and your 
game will restart.

	This information comes from the expert fingers of my son, Paul...

		John Travell