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From: chris@momenta (Chris Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Columns high score (was Tetris High Score)
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.204756.557@momenta>
Date: 20 Sep 90 20:47:56 GMT
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deichman@cod.NOSC.MIL (Shane D. Deichman) writes:

>I haven't heard of this game yet (and I thought I was a Tetris
>fanatic!).  Is it anything like Blockout, California Dreams' 3D
>Tetris game?
Can't say. I don't know these games
In columns, groups of three blocks fall from the top of the screen. You can 
shift the order of the blocks as it falls and position it. When it lands
all sequences of three of more blocks with the same pattern disappear 
(and you score based on the number of blocks eliminated). After these 
blocks disappear, the remaining blocks fall to the bottom. This sometimes
causes chain reactions.

>If not, who markets it?  Any and all comments appreciated.
It is a $5 shareware game available from Compuserve, America Online, 
and many local bulleting boards.

>>and I'm curious to know if anyone has broken 800.
I got a letter from someone who claims to have scored 1000!
(Notice that at no time do my fingers leave my hands).
(Someone scored 1,200 on a prototype version, but that was before I put 
in the speeding up of blocks falling)

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