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Re: Legendary Japanese Puzzle Franchise 'Magical Drop' Returns With A New Entry

aumgn

@KoiTenchi, way more complicated. You have to “pull down” gems and then shoot them back up. You can pull down one color at a time and as many of that color as you want. Gems settle upward and can chain… and during the chain you can continue pulling down gems and shooting them up.

Requires an insane amount of fast twitch and field of play vision to see potential chains several steps away.

Re: Feature: How Nintendo Killed The Best Version Of Tetris

aumgn

“Released in 1979, Asteroids was in black and white, but the animation was slick and fluid thanks to RASTER graphics, a technique that rendered graphics from lines.“

It’s actually VECTOR graphics. And not just a technique, but a vector monitor too. From Wikipedia:

“The electron beam follows an arbitrary path tracing the connected sloped lines, rather than following the same horizontal raster path for all images. The beam skips over dark areas of the image without visiting their points.“

Hope this gets updated.