What a weird game this is. Have you ever played Tetris and wished it had more hats? No, well here it is anyway! Hatris, which, believe it or not, was the idea of Alexey Pajitnov, yes the man behind Tetris, also designed this game. It released on a few platforms back in the day like the NES, Gameboy, PC Engine and NEC PC-9801, and somehow, even managed to make it's way on to the Archimedes, though not officially.
I'm guessing that Joeri de Winter just really liked Hatris for some reason and wanted a way to play it on Acorn's 32-bit computer, so he made this. It's rather bare bones, simple graphics, no music and the game runs in a small window, but fundamentally, it's Hatris, a weird puzzle game which at first sounds like it'd be awful, but in practice, is surprisingly fun.
Also the "box art" used on the thumbnail isn't real. I just made it myself in Google Slides, because why not. Beats just a simple screenshot, and since this game has no title screen, it was the second best thing. Also, yes, this game has no audio. The music you're hearing here comes from Tetris on the Commodore 64 and is simply there so you have something to listen to.
2 июл 2024
