When I was about seven or eight my dad brought me Packard Bell 486 with 4 MBs of RAM. So I buy this Magazine - PC Format (A Gaming Magazine) and this Magazine came with a CD with Demos of Games on it. So I look at the CD and there were about twenty to thirty games on the Disc; some of the games on the disc included 'Same and Max: Hit The Road', 'Descent' and many other games to try out. So I load start to install some of these games on my Computer System and start to realise that none of these games work on my System.

I was pretty annoyed! My Computer System wasn't that good and four years after I realised this even more - my cousin was given a Pentium 90 about the same time I had my 486 and I was pretty jealous because he could run every game under the sun.

Anthony Ottman

Retro Games

Tetris

A classic game which many people have played! If have never heard of this game then you need to get a life. This game is very easier to play and can sometimes get a person frustrated to the brink! This game has been around for years and even I was playing this game in my early days and still at the age of 27 I still enjoy a good game of Tetris and I will never stop playing this classic game.

There are many different versions and forms of Tetris and usually in today's world you can mostly find some sort of Tetris game online and all you have to do is to type the word Tetris in the search engine you are using. Back in the day when Tetris was huge the graphics may have sucked however a good challenging game!

Tetris is mainly played on a computer and I have never seen Tetris or an equivalent of Tetris on any games console such as a Sega Mega Drive or PlayStation. However this not mean to say that Tetris cannot be played on this type of Platform plus the controls for Tetris are basic so this would be abled to be played on a platform such as PlayStation or even Xbox.

Here is screenshot of what the Tetris game looks like - pretty simple as you can see! For me I enjoyed playing this type of game on a computer platform as it was easier to the controls. I love this retro game especially when I was younger however even now I still like a good game of Tetris.

You can a version Tetris online by following this link:

http://www.freetetris.org/
 

Anthony Ottman