Tetrisphere (N64)

Despite the console being in its final, gasping, terminal stages of consumability, new games for the Nintendo 64 are still absurdly expensive. However, anyone seeking additional video game thrills on the console before its imminent expiry would do well to pop along to their local second-hand games retailer, and pick up some of the console's older titles for great prices. Many pre-owned games are available to buy for less than £15. For example, Nintendo's 'Tetrisphere', originally released in 1998, is widely available in second-hand video game retailers for just £10. It's quite a fun game, loosely based on the classic block-dropping puzzle ...  Read the complete review

Every platform needs at least one Tertris clone and Tetrispheres was the first on the N64. Like tetris you need to destroy the blocks and not allow them to build up to high. Unlike tetris you're firing these boxs at the surface of a sphere which you are free to rotate. If you group together blocks of the same type they will explode off the sphere, if not they will build up on the surface. So as with ordinary Tertris you want to group together the blocks and avoid staking up too many. To win you must remove enough blocks to expose the core of the sphere. The game is pretty good fun, much in the same way that Tetris is. It takes a little while to get ...  Read the complete review