#1 crazy taxi poster

also lmao at the tetris forever collection showing off BPS famicom tetris as if it's a real selling point. a bunch of people are gonna pick that first thinking it's NES tetris, play it for like 30 seconds, and never play it again after dealing with:

• no manual soft drop, you have to wait for the pieces to fall to fill in overhangs
• only one rotation direction (i'll take 1988 sega tetris, thanks)
• rotate is bound to DOWN and hard drop is bound to A, mirroring the original home computer releases

at least it has tetris battle gaiden, i suppose

i didn't know that tetris collection announcement thing happened cause i don't really watch nintendo directs, BUT THAT BEING SAID

seeing people ask "where's the Tetris the Grandmaster 3: Terror Instinct port?" makes me once again wonder if it's feasible to even emulate a windows XP embedded environment on modern consoles without adding more input lag to the game that may / may not already exist natively to it (iirc the commonly posited number is 4 frames? i've read differing accounts based on real cabinet setups but those cabinets are also self-destructing due to their USB validation dongles so, shrug)

usually adding input lag in ports is not a huge deal to the Average Gamer but when the entire point is to give easy access to extremely high-level play where, at the halfway point of optimal play, you have 6 frames of reprieve when placing a piece before another 15 frame timer starts counting down until the next piece already locks itself in place (in shirase it's 6 and 15/13/12/10/8, respectively), it's kind of important to not make the timings even harder from technical shortcomings

i found a phone grip bluetooth controller (a gamesir X2, specifically) for $0.25 while thrifting today, i think the goodwill thought it was broken but the battery was just super flat

it's not a great GM time but i can still win tetris the grandmaster with it lmfao

playing tetris to stop myself from stewing in trauma and depression bullshit and now i'm just irritated at dropping my first TAP S9 to stupid mistakes

at least it kind of worked i suppose