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6 Sep 2024 11:19:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Retro gaming hint of the day  
From: Warp
Date: 5 Jan 2009 17:28:55
Message: <496289a7@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> For those who don't know: Blockout is an old Tetris -clone - it's
> speciality is that it's 3D and it's viewed from up.

> XBlockout is X version of the old great Blockout.

> http://freshmeat.net/projects/xblockout/

  IMO tetris just doesn't work in 3D very well. It's very hard to visualize,
and it destroys one of the selling points of basic tetris: Simplicity.

  (Yes, I have played blockout, like a million years ago. Didn't find it
very entertaining.)

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                                                          - Warp


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