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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Welltris
Summary: Welltris not out yet
Keywords: Welltris, games
Message-ID: <1989Dec4.154324.8199@cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 15:43:24 GMT
References: <4ZRiTDS00Uh_42AFx=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes:
> 
> Has anybody seen Welltris (the 3-D version of Tetris) for the Mac?  Is
> it worth the sleepless nights, the staring, bloodshot eyes, the $19 from
> MacConnection?
> 

I called MacConnection on Thursday of last week (mere *instants* after
getting my latest catalog :-)); and asked about Welltris. Unfortunately,
Welltris shouldn't have been included in that catalog, as Spectrum
Holobyte is planning a February or March release. (The PC version is 
due out any day now--hence the mixup.)

As far as I can reconstruct from the advertisement, you are still playing
an essentially 2-d game of Tetris, except there are four simultaneous
playing fields going on linked side-to-side with wrap-around (the four
walls of a rectangular well).  Presumably one must fill in all four
walls of bricks before they slide down the well.

Sort of like Tetris combined with the old arcade game, Tempest.  A real
review will be forthcoming in February or March.  $19 for a game can't be
beat.

-Nick


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