#tetris worlds

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mino

Debut: Tetris Worlds

While researching for last week's post, I discovered something amazing. Something I haven't been able to stop thinking about. No matter what, my mind always comes back to

Tetris Lore

Now, I'm not going to act like Tetris has an overarching story, or that the story of one game is at all relevant to the other games. Tetris Worlds is just one game, and its story is self-contained. But the fact that this Tetris game has a story at all is really incredible!

What would you expect from a Tetris game with a story? Maybe something like, the Tetriminos are all best friends living in Block World, but one day, wuh woh! There's a Bad Guy who's a sphere who hates cubes or something! Luckily, with the power of our friendship and Tetris skills, we can teach him a lesson and banish him once more... or perhaps make a new friend? :)

Please watch the introductory cutscene of Tetris Worlds.

These are the Minos! Minos, in this canon, are a species of cycloptic cubes with fascinating cycloptic faces on their forward-facing faces. I absolutely adore them already. And wouldn't you know it, their sun is going supernova and they are all going to die if they can't evacuate their planet in time. HUH???

This story is so fascinating! I am SO happy that someone came up with this when tasked with making a story for a Tetris game. There was a creative vision, and it appears to be fully realized in this short but unforgettable intro to what could have easily been just another Tetris game!

You get to have a Mino as an avatar! This could be YOU! You can make them wear a funny hat as they hover and squash and stretch on the sidelines while you play Tetris!

The game's manual explains even more about the Minos, most notably that they are MECHANICAL! These things just keep getting better! Living, cycloptic cubes, with an entire futuristic society, and they're machines. The manual also feels the need to remind us that they were probably made by organic beings, as "most" mechanical beings are. And I find that suspiciously specific...

Look at this fish! This mechanical, cycloptic Mino fish. This was not in the Xbox version's intro, but it was in the PS2 one! For whatever reason, the two had unique animation in their intros, despite using the same voiceover. This fish is shown emerging from water onto land, where it beholds the Tetrions, the sacred and powerful portals in which the game of Tetris takes place. The visual of a fish coming onto land is such in-your-face evolution imagery that I am ENTIRELY convinced that these fish were ancestors of the Minos who would later form civilization! Natural, evolving robots!

...and then this intro goes on to depict the Minos as having TWO eyes. Yeah ok. Sure. I will confidently declare these binocular blockheads as non-canon based on everything else we've seen, ESPECIALLY because the actual gameplay even depicts cycloptic Minos!

Some of them seem to be established characters. This is Izabela. Hi Izabela!

Are you on the edge of your seat, hoping our friends the Minos survive? They do! Savvy Tetris skills allow them to activate the Tetrions (which were left behind by an ancient space-faring civilization. In case you were wondering) and teleport to other planets. Minos live! Hooray. And now you know the Tetris Lore, and can think about it constantly like I do!

Lastly, I made this little image of the Mino leader from Worlds, in the style of a Tetris Friends avatar! I like to think some cross-promotional avatars could have been added if Worlds came out during the lifespan of Tetris Friends. I can only hope that at least someone at The Tetris Company remembers this incarnation of the Minos, and that they could possibly appear in a game once more!

#mino #tetris #tetris worlds #not mario #funky friday #mod chikako

[oldwindowsicons]

Tetris Worlds (2001)

#tetris #tetris worlds #games #puzzle

[playstationgamemania]

#ps2 #Tetris Worlds #tetris

[the-corvid-king]

i love tetris worlds so much because nobody ever plays tetris expecting a story, but here you are, getting stared at disappointedly by a one-eyed cube for getting one line instead of four because his planet is about to die. amazing

#tetris #tetris worlds #video games #ps2 games #textpost #text tag #text #txt post #txt #i’m a ramblin man #playstation #playstation 2 #ps2 classics #play station

[johnstamospanda]

This is lovely

#all i've ever needed in life #delta emulator #tetris #tetris worlds

[im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom]

#tetris #tetris worlds #the kid laroi #justin bieber #siivagunner #Line Dance - Tetris Worlds (GBA)

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

10 Random Games from 2001 Tetris Worlds

Tetris Worlds is a falling block puzzle using the Tetris licence and released across the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, PC and Xbox, with a 2001 release for the  PC, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance.

#tetris #tetris worlds #2001 #puzzle #falling block puzzle #youtube #block puzzle #puzzle games

[crushcandles]

new motto: i did a bad job but i did it

#in the year of no lord 2024 #this is about #reading and playing tetris and stretching and complimenting people and living in the world #among other things #i'm trying i'm growing i'm learning

[teethburger]

I hope that 13 year old kid who beat Tetris for the first time has a fantastic 2024

#i love that video so much he just instantly starts hyperventilating #my dad lost his title of biggest nerd in the world #joey says some sh #tetris

[disbnad]

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#ask #aespa #users #aespa discography #icu #hold on tight #tetris #illusion #kpop #icons #usernames #moodboard #iconic #aenergy #lq #my world #lucid dream #i’ll make you cry #spicy #salty and sweet #lingo #messy users #twitter users #random users #short users #gg users #long users #kpop users #tumblr users #blue

[emily-mooon]

I’m currently resisting the urge to chuck the Scott Pilgrim cast into a 70s au, but the 70s fashion Stacey sketch I made is staring me down

#all because the line ‘crash and the boys are getting into the punk sound more’ is making me chuckle #and cause of an old nordegrim wip where I put them in fashion from the decade #also just because a 70s au for the og plot makes sense #like certain interests the characters have can still exist (ex Neil and video games. just now he’s playing pong and not Zelda or Tetris) #the fashion is also kinda similar ngl just more bright and well obviously 70s (if you get what I mean) #anyways who knows if I’ll even complete it idk ask me in a year #the au btw is just the comics plot but instead it’s in the 70s #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim comic #scott pilgrim vs the world #scott pilgrim takes off

[oldwindowsicons]

Tetris Worlds - Config

#tetris #tetris worlds #games

[playstationgamemania]

#tetris #Tetris Worlds #ps2

[mikimeiko]

Tetris (Jon S. Baird, 2023)

#tetris #tetris movie #jon s. baird #sadly quite disappointing #i liked the pacing and the editing in the beginning #but then it went a little too OH WOW LOOK AT THIS VERY GOOD AMERICAN GUY SAVING... well something i guess #meh #films i watched in 2023 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[qzse-rtv]

I'd be friends with you

We can play like, warcraft 3 and eat chips or something

Which chips flavor is your favorite?

I like bland, mustard, chicken, pepper, any really

#id play games with u if i had time but unfortunately my life sucks #unless u play uuh #cod or war thunder #or world of tanks or tetris

[patheticmenscuffle]

Five Pebbles (Rain World): "He's a silly little pink robot guy, but he's also a sentient, city-sized supercomputer with absent parents (all ten thousand of them), [and] severe depression"

Satan/The Dark Prince (Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo Tetris): "he's somehow both a gigachad and a beta cuck."

#polls #rain world #five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #5p rain world #5 pebbles #satan #the dark prince #madou monogatari #puyo puyo tetris #patheticmenscuffle