I picked up a Nintendo DS Lite the weekend that it had come out. My main reason was for the New Super Mario Brothers game (Which, BTW is very worth it if you are a fan of the original Super Mario Brothers on the NES), but picked up the DS version of Tetris as well. Anyway, about a week and a half ago I started a single player marathon Tetris game. 2 days later I hit 999 lines, and found myself disappointed that it no longer counted lines. But the levels kept going up, so i had a rough idea how many lines I had.

A week later I hit 999 levels (thats 9,990 lines), and then stopped counting levels (at 10,000 lines). Great … but the score kept going up. So i kept playing thinking about whether its worth the effort to see if there is a max score or not. Last night (July 5th) I hit 40,000,000 points in the game, paused it, turned the power off, and popped Mario back in (Seriously, NSMB is a GREAT game, I highly recommend it.)

This morning curiosity got the best of me, so i started googling what the max Tetris score is on the DS. Apparently 99,999,999 … wow, that seems kinda of low to me. Over all, I have decided that I am disappointed in the DS Tetris. The online play is the only thing that keeps me from saying ‘worse game-boy Tetris ever.’ I think I will put it down for a while before picking up the online addiction again. Go through mario a couple times, maybe pick up Mario64 or Castlevania and play those for a bit too.

At this point the best version of Tetris ever is the Gameboy Color version. It holds true to the original playability of the game (none of this sliding blocks around after they land that started with the n64 Tetris), a max level of 30 but infinite lines (at least, I never hit the max number of lines).

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