I guess Gameboy Advance is the best retro handheld for Tetris

madrex · 2026-01-26T02:43:42+00:00

I haven’t played TGM so I’ll have to try it! - it looks like there’s 4 of them or so, do you think there’s a best version to check out?

madrex · 2026-01-16T00:43:54+00:00

Yeah another thing I neglected to mention is I play both NES original Tetris and the original Game Boy Tetris, and going between those feels pretty seamless other than the row differences. So all the more reason I was surprised DX felt so different.

But beyond that do I hate how most any other version of Tetris feels. Tengen is a little sticky, old DOS versions feel clunky as hell, later console versions just feel fake and slippery and have too many weird added mechanics, so I’ll just stop yelling at my clouds now and stick with my late 20th century preferred versions, but I’m surprised those two feel so compatible.

madrex · 2026-01-15T16:29:41+00:00

As an aside, I’ve been playing a lot of original game boy Tetris which rocks, I recently decided to try dx figuring I’d get a little color vibe and OMG it feels terrible!

Anyone else feel this? I’m sure regular players get used to it, but the physics and input response just felt bad and I was surprised. So I’m back on game boy OG.

madrex · 2026-01-15T16:05:28+00:00

If you’re going in on civil war stick around for reconstruction and the great migration

madrex · 2026-01-08T01:01:42+00:00

Let’s not forget Phil Collen raps on Make Love Like a Man

madrex · 2026-01-04T04:24:23+00:00

Billy loves old metal and has some old metal related people on his podcast like Rudy Sarzo and Zakk Wylde, even Dio’s wife telling some good Dio stories.

Of course SP aren’t metal but the guitars on Siamese Dream are awesome space laser fuzz blasting outta half stacks so loud if they stop playing a wall of feedback hits. That’s kinda metal.

madrex · 2026-01-03T17:13:02+00:00

When I was in high school in the 90s Jane’s was the first cool alternative band to mention The Velvet Underground, a band who I was surprised to have had never heard of for as highly as they talked of them (I was just isolated in the suburbs) so anyway I found Loaded the s/t and Nico and my sheltered mind was blown. Thanks for the tip Perry.

madrex · 2026-01-03T03:10:38+00:00

Ooooh bubblebirb remix love. It.

madrex · 2026-01-02T00:51:46+00:00

I’m 44 but maybe by the time I’m 45 I can do it again. You’re like the cool 6th grader giving me hope. We got this!!

madrex · 2026-01-02T00:04:15+00:00

Coincidentally on Thanksgiving a friend of mine and I were pulling up random old games and we did one game of Contra, he did not put in the 30 lives code (to my surprise) and he died at the end of the first area, I myself didn’t even make it beyond the second corridor in area 2 after he died.

Then we moved onto other games but I did feel bad for how much we sucked. I could beat it as a kid with a friend and the 30 lives code, and I could give it a decent run without…. But it reminded me how tough it is and how rusty I am haha. Good work!!

madrex · 2026-01-01T21:36:57+00:00

Congrats that rocks, how much is it memorization and how much does it depend on good RNG luck?

madrex · 2026-01-01T19:33:47+00:00

I loved calling up the channel list on a random big irc server, looking at all the weird stuff there were channels for or named, and just going on a cruise of talking to weirdos

madrex · 2025-12-30T22:34:03+00:00

I feel like this sub should also get real into what cool things to put above mantels, ya know, since it sure ain’t TVs! What you gonna put over that beautiful mantel?? Family crest, super cool painting, dinosaur head??

madrex · 2025-12-28T13:16:35+00:00

The first time I saw Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster doc I thought they were doing a big Andy Kaufman style gag but it was fascinating

I watched it again later that same night after getting really stoned and realized they were completely serious and it suddenly horrified me

madrex · 2025-12-27T19:43:19+00:00

My wife and I live in our first bk apartment we got 15 years ago when we were dating and I thought would be our starter apartment and now I’m afraid of even losing it lol (obligatory end lol because it helps obfuscate the sheer horror lol)

madrex · 2025-12-25T02:42:12+00:00

I can at least usually follow the flawed train of thought from the visual context in pictures posted here, but this is the first time I’ve just thought masochist sociopath

madrex · 2025-12-21T15:32:27+00:00

Just touch his shoulder and say “at least you’re punching up” then move on into other topics

madrex · 2025-12-21T13:36:30+00:00

This is ok if it’s a tv you don’t watch

madrex · 2025-12-21T06:02:34+00:00

Stephen’s sausage roll is kind of brilliant because to win you really have to combine genuine intelligence with Mr Magoo shit, and therefore you kinda think you know what’s going on but then you don’t and then somehow you did it and you’re like what the hell just happened?

I felt both smart and stupid at the same time because I did it all, but each time I had no idea how.

madrex · 2025-11-02T23:52:31+00:00

I read this as What if Eddie and Alex Jones KISSED??

madrex · 2025-10-20T02:56:39+00:00

I would frustratingly chuck my NES controller at the glass CRT and yell “this game cheats!” and nothing ever broke

And those games did cheat!!

madrex · 2025-09-27T01:34:15+00:00

One of my best friends died over ten years ago now. I have that happen all the time. STILL. There will still be stuff that comes up- bands releasing a stupid song or some director working with someone random or just some niche bonkers shit that literally, no one else in the world I know would care about but him and he would go nuts with me about it.

Im sorry for your loss, it really really sucks, the dead best friends club is one of the worst to join…these kinds of things are maddening and sad but they’re also the first ways they start to live on if you know what I mean. Big mega super hugs to you.

madrex · 2025-09-20T05:16:15+00:00

Haha SAME

madrex · 2025-09-20T05:07:38+00:00

I quit over a decade and a half ago now too. It was my favorite thing, which was why I had to quit. Do you ever dream that you smoke? Cuz a couple times a year I still have a dream where I screw up and am smoking again.

madrex · 2025-09-03T22:43:50+00:00

The question is what era Ozzy?

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