Tetris Party Trailer Drops, Places Itself Awkwardly, Leads to Sure Demise as the Blocks Climb Higher and Higher

I play a lot of Free Tetris. Thus, I'm seriously considering picking up Tetris Party, a game that's out for WiiWare at some point this month. The game will cost 1200 Wii Points (or $12). What else? It supports Wi-Fi play, it supports Miis, it has a co-op mode and a multiplayer versus, and of course, you can just play classic Tetris. Here's the trailer.

"Wild Snake," or, "From Boredom With Love"

Real video game buffs know how to throw names around. I don't know any of them, making me a nerd lite, but I do know the basics. Billy Mitchell, Steve Weibe, Nobuo Uematsu, Takashi Tezuka, and, the man of the hour, Alexey Pajitnov.

For those of you who don't know, Pajitnov is the creator of Tetris, one of the greatest games ever to grace the world. He is the king of puzzle games. So a few weeks back, I was digging through a friend's collection of Super Nintendo games and came across Wild Snake.

Hmm, how best to describe Wild Snake. I suppose you could say that it's Tetris with snakes. See, Pajitnov didn't receive any royalties for the original Tetris. Thus, he needed to keep making different puzzle games like Welltris, Hatris, and of course, Wild Snake. Maybe I have an aversion to titles with the word "wild" in the title (see also Wild Guitar). But Wild Snake was a long, painful waste of time. A waste of time that I never wanted to end. Even when I wasn't playing, I was watching my friend play it. Behold, you may end up watching this entire video.

Wild Snake shouldn't be any fun. But then you just keep playing it. Eventually, with a voice full of pain, I cried out, "Why am I still playing Wild Snake?" Eventually, I crawled on all fours towards the SNES and, begrudgingly, turned it off. It's like being wrapped in a bunch of chains, but the chains are oddly fascinating. Still, it's not worth the mild entertainment and you need to break free from the chains - you know, the oppressive chains of Wild Snake.

A Less Awesome But Still Fun Guitar Hero

Cool?

Yeah, you can play Guitar Hero via widget now. But don't mind me. I'll be over here playing Free Tetris.