Super Tetris
Spectrum Holobyte
This is the sequel to Tetris, the addictive Soviet computer game which many of us are all too familiar with. While the basic objective of the game remains unchanged, many new attention-grabbing features have been added to this version. Rousing Russian music and incredible color graphics of the Moscow Circus provide the background for a new scrolling Tetris pit.
The pit begins about half full of "rubble", and as you clear lines, the pit scrolls up, thus maintaining a relatively constant level of difficulty. The object of each game is to reach the bottom of the pit before you run out of pieces.
Two other new features have also been added to the game: bombs and treasures. A bomb cluster is released every time you clear a line, and the more lines you clear at a time, the more bombs you are given. These bombs can be used to destroy troublesome pieces and open up treasure boxes. Treasure boxes are randomly placed in the rubble at the start of the game.
For players who have trouble stopping, Super Tetris has timed games and also allows you to save your games. There are also three new two-player modes: competitive, cooperative, and head-to-head. In the cooperative and competitive modes, the pit is wider and two pieces fall at once, each player controlling one. In the network head-to-head mode each player plays in their own normal size pit.
Super Tetris is an excellent new version of the old classic. My only complaint was that the pieces are quite small.
