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Tetris is the puzzle game where different shaped blocks fall from the sky and you have to fit them together to make a line that spans the entire width of the board. All of the pieces are made up of four blocks and the best you can do is erase four lines at a time. The object is to keep erasing lines while the game's speed increases, continue to perform this simple task and perhaps you'll rack up a new high score, get too close to the top of the screen and it's game over for you. Those are the fundamentals of Tetris, the rules that all Tetris games must play by.

Super Tetris attempts to play by these rules, but somewhere along the lines they decided to suck all of the fun out of this port. The fundamentals are still intact, but there are simply too many problems that get in the way for this game to be considered a successful Tetris game. Oddly enough the biggest problem is the funky control scheme; it boggles the mind that somebody can mess up the controls of a game as simple as Tetris. Not only is the D-pad sluggish, but it's disappointing that you can only rotate the pieces in one direction. This may not sound like a big deal, but any hardcore Tetris player will tell you that it's imperative that you are able to rotate your blocks both clockwise and counter clockwise, especially as these pieces start falling faster.