Dave @lemmy.one Dice maker, gamer nerd, developer, Dolphins fan. Reddit refugee (maybe).
Still fighting the 80s 8-bit wars, one port comparison at a time.
Honestly, the highlight of the show for me was definitely the blindfold Breath of the Wild run... amazing!
Also enjoyed glitchless Elden Ring.
At least in the case of the Tetris GB, there was no battery save in that cartridge. It really was a case of losing your score after every power off.
It's a Miyoo Mini Plus... a relatively cheap ($60) Chinese Linux device.
It's actually a Miyoo Mini Plus... a fairly cheap ($60) Chinese Linux based console for playing retro games. I definitely recommend it.
I mostly use mine for GBA games, and I think it's perfect. The screen is considerably better than both the unlit GBA screen and the lit GBA SP screen, and is the perfect size for those games. Definitely recommend a Miyoo Mini Plus over the RG35XX, if just for the wifi (which makes it easy to load up ROMs, but also to do OTA updates and things like retroachievements).
I've not played Tetris Effect yet... the last recent one I looked at was Puyo Puyo Tetris. While I can take or leave Puyo Puyo, I loved the Tetris aspect of that game... especially the four player mode.
Funnily enough, I just tried this last night after talking about GB Tetris. It really is awesome!
That's really impressive... had a "quick" go and immediately had a 200 line game on it. It's amazing how much difference the shadow piece makes (not to mention the hold and infinite spin).
Tetris (Gameboy on Miyoo Mini Plus)
Gameboy Tetris wasn't the first Tetris I played (that was Mirrorsoft Tetris on the ZX Spectrum, with its spooky AY theme music), but it is the Tetris I always go back to.
For such an early GB game, it feels almost perfect. A compelling combination of apparent simplicity and hidden depth, it was (and still is) ideal to pick up and play for five minutes at a time. I think it is fair to say that the GB wouldn't have done half as well without Tetris.
Sure, it lacks features that modern Tetris implementations have - like hold, or being able to rotate infinitely in place, or fancy flashing backdrops - but it seems somehow better for that. Tetris in its purest form, just one more go, for ever and ever.
What are your memories of GB Tetris? Do you still play it? Do you think it holds up? What is your go-to Tetris?
It feels almost petty to mention, but my main problem with gaming these days is choice... there's just too much. I have a SteamDeck packed with over a decade of Humble Bundles and giveaways. I have a MiSTer FPGA with 10,000 retro games. I have subscriptions throwing me more games in a month than I could play in a year... and amid all that choice, I found I was playing none of it.
So I've taken steps. On retro devices, I've taken to removing the full ROM sets (or hiding them from view) and just selecting a handful of games that I used to own, or definitely want to play. In Steam, I've started a collection list of games I'm interested in and I only ever pick from that.
And, somehow, it works. Seeing only three or four games to choose from somehow short circuits that panic response of seeing three or four thousand. It's easier to fixate on a game, or to find something to genuinely enjoy about a title that may not be that perfect experience otherwise, rather than discarding it quickly and moving on to the next fleeting thrill.
Couple of oldies I fire up regularly: Tetris (Gameboy, 1989); Head Over Heels (Spectrum, 1987); Bruce Lee (C64, Atari, 1984)
Miyoo Mini + owner here, and I love it! It's perfect for taking anywhere and pulling out for a quick five minute play. Been playing mostly GBA games on it, which it is perfect for.
In fact, the white one is the most readily available currently... I got this one because they were all sold out of the black one, and it's the one I see most often on Miyoo's Ali Express store.
That said, the temptation to buy all four is strong, so the order you get them in becomes increasingly irrelevant :)
I've been playing a lot on this Miyoo Mini Plus recently. Tiny, but surprisingly easy to play, and great for picking up for quick gaming sessions. With OnionOS, and its Game Switcher, you can be in and gaming in seconds.
So far, I've played through GBA Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow on it. Great games!