Best Tetris Game

[Fish and Chips]

So Tetris is probably the single greatest game to come out of the Soviet Union. But this morning I wondered just what was everyone's preferred version of Tetris, Sunday morning being generally the time I devote to thinking about people's inconsequential one sentence posts on varyingly superfluous threads, such as "In a game franchise with minimal variation what could possibly be the personal favorite of the majority of people I will never meet."

[Link Antilles]

Poll Fixed. Tetris DX must never be forgotten!

[LadyRushia]

I can't possibly choose from all of these great Tetris games! They are all so awesome!

[TheMelodyMaker]

How in the world did Battletoads get in there?

[goldenspines]

Whatever version that I can download onto my computer and play for hours on end is the best version.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Can I go back and change mine? I want it to be Battletoads.

[Midori]

You didn't include the SNES Tetris/Dr. Mario, which has the best multiplayer mode. Also you didn't include the version of Tetris that comes with that one bittorrent client...and the half million flash tetris games there are on the web...

Back to seriousness. Visually (and audially), I like Tetris Worlds the best, but it's mechanics not the best. I usually play the NES Tetris, though when I want multiplayer I use the aforementioned SNES version.

[blkmage]

Metris.

[uc pseudonym]

What the heck is Lulz anyway?

[Solid Ronin]

I vote:

Super Tetris Turbo II HD Remix: Sins of the Father 98'

[Whitefang]

How in the world did Battletoads get in there?

I don't know, but it got my vote! I have never understood the fascination of Tetris. It could possibly explain my incredibly disorganized lifestyle...

[Radical Dreamer]

Oh my gosh.

I love this thread.

Oh my gosh.

[LadyRushia]

I don't know, but it got my vote! I have never understood the fascination of Tetris.

Neither do I.

"Tetris is an action puzzle game where the player rotates falling block shapes to make them fit together in a pile. When a row is filled, it disappears, keeping the height of the pile of blocks from increasing. As the game progresses, it continually speeds up until the player starts making mistakes that allow the blocks to reach the top of the game area, ending the game. Tetris is unwinable, you can only put off your inevitable defeat. This fatalistic aspect of the game should come as no surprise since it was originally created in 1985 in the Soviet Union, where the Atheist government taught everyone that there is nothing but a bleak, pointless existence followed by death with no chance for Salvation. It is claimed that the word "tetris" comes from the game pieces all being made of four blocks. In reality, the game was named in mockery of the Trinity by adding a forth hypostasis, the Communist State, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Because it is simple to program, versions of Tetris can be found on every game, computer, and operating system. There have even been implementations of Tetris done using computer controlled lights in office buildings, turning the lighted windows into the falling blocks. The ubiquity of Tetris is also because it is highly addictive. Its repetitive gameplay and use of a repetitive Russian folk tune causes players to slip into a hypnagogic state, making them receptive to the Communistic themes inherent in the game imagery (everyone is an unindividualistic block that must be made to fit together in Soviet conformity, and sometimes whole lines of people are made to disappear without any explanation). This is intentional, since, like all work done by the Soviet Academy of Science where Tetris was developed, it was part of secret military research, in this case having to do with mind control. (The US military also researched mind control video games in the 1980s, including one called "Polybius", but we never used them during the Cold War, unlike the Soviets who unleashed Tetris into the general public where it's still affecting people to this day.) Because of its fatalistic worldview and the danger it poses to people's God-given Free Will, all implementations of Tetris get ZERO CROSSES. [See our Tetris video exposé]"

[Nate]

What the heck is Lulz anyway?

Lulz is laughter at someone else's expense (from the German concept of "Schadenfreude".) This makes it inherently superior to lesser forms of humor. Just as the element of surprise transforms the physical act of love into something beautiful, the anguish of a laughed-at victim transforms lol into lulz, making it longer, girthier, and more pleasurable.

Lulz is engaged in by Internet users who have witnessed one major economic/environmental/political disaster too many, and who thus view a state of voluntary, gleeful sociopathy over the world's current apocalyptic state, as superior to being continually emo.

Also, I've never played it, but I have to say Hatris.

Because it has hats. And Hatris is fun to say.