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From: lfk@key.COM (Lynn Kerby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware 3D Tetris
Message-ID: <1614@key.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 02:53:16 GMT
References: <1317@taurus.BITNET> <9004072341.AA19070@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: lfk@oslo.key.COM (Lynn Kerby)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <9004072341.AA19070@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes:
 >I just read something relevent to this in the latest AmigaWhirled:  It seems
 >the original creator of Tetris has already created (perhaps prior to Blockout)
 >a 3D version dubbed "welltris" which is marketed through Spectrum Holobyte.
 >I wonder how California Dreams feels about that?  I wonder how Spectrum
 >Holobyte feels.

I saw Welltris running on a PC a while back, but it is not even close to the
same type of game as Blockout.  Welltris seems to be a version of tetris that
is played on 4 walls and a floor simultaneously.  The game is does *not* use
3d block shapes like Blockout, instead the pieces fall down the walls and on
to the floor of the pit.  I was very disappointed with Welltris (esp.
after playing Blockout for a while).

California Dreams may not like it much, but Spectrum Holobyte has nothing
like it.

 >
 >Jeff Bevis		     Purdue Univeristy School of Electrical Engineering
 >bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu	  	   	       Give me Amiga or nothing at all. 
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