Tetris Spokesman Calls Angry Birds a Fad

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Few things today aren't a fad. No matter how much people rave or how popular it is for its time, not much of what's taking or taken the world by storm lately will be remembered as a classic.

 

[Bealzibob]

Having never played angry birds I can say that tetris certainly prevails over it. Though I find both to be rather bland as far as puzzle games go and prefer more of a bejeweled or majong style.

Pretty sure he is correct in his assumption.

 

[JdaS]

Funny thing. Never liked Tetris at all, myself...

 

[samsonguy920]

It is really sad when someone who distributes a videogame I grew up with sounds like some cranky old fart about a new game.
I've never played Angry Birds but I have nothing against a game that actually helps people understand a bit of physics. (And that pigs rule the world)

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

He calls it a fad, I call it an overrated piece of crap that's a knockoff of far superior flash games.

I'll just quote this for emphasis, I don't think Angry Birds its success is merited by any stretch of the imagination, it shamelessly rips off older and perfectly free flash games and has the gall to charge money to play it, and somehow become a worldwide success. (Really, why buy it when there's free alternatives that have absolutely identical gameplay?)

I sincerely hope that Angry Birds will be dead and buried within the next year.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Who the hell actually plays Tetris anymore?

YO

OT: We'll see, we'll see. In the meantime I'll remain indifferent to those furious avian blockbusters.

 

[redisforever]

See, I still play the GameBoy version...

I totally agree. I gave up Angry Birds at maybe level 4? Tetris, though, will be here until the world ends, because I don't think you can play Angry Birds on the side of a building.

And Tetris has this entire culture around it, you don't see pro Angry Birds players, people humming the Angry Birds theme...

 

[Atmos Duality]

Honestly, I find Angry Birds to be this generation's "Worms"; which too, sprung up quickly with its addictive gameplay, and burnt out almost immediately afterward.

Angry Birds succeeds because it's a (comparatively) good title on a very popular platform...
Mind you, it's a platform that is overflowing with absolute shit games like a clogged toilet in a frat house after a hot-dog eating contest.

 

[Ben Saville]

I think angry birds will probably be a fad, because unlike tetris it is sold on its 'coolness' and the fact that nearly everyone I know who has a smartphone has played at LEAST several hours of it stands testament. I think when a new game to contest the throne comes along, it won't necessarily 'die out' if they make new challenges for it, but it will definitely drop in popularity.

 

[weker]

Tetris is a game etched into the wall of gaming with a building sized drill. It's gameplay is totally complete with nothing silly added and noting needed to be placed into it, this has allowed games to be built on it's premise with alterations.

Angry Birds isn't a fad, but it's no tetris in anyway. It is just a clone of crush the castle with different aesthetics.
One of the AB creators believes himself a games design genius, and yet all he did was change boulders into birds, knights into pigs, and catapults into a slingshot

 

[The Virgo]

Heh. I can't help but laugh at this, really. When was the last good Tetris game released? When they started adding multiplayer and graphics and all that crap, it went downhill.

That's not to say that Angry Birds is here to stay (it may, it may not. Who knows?), but I think it's in bad taste for a Tetris spokesperson to say that ... which reminds me: Tetris has a spokesperson? That sounds odd, actually ...

Also, Tetris for the NES was a great game. Sadly, I don't have an NES, so I have to play "First-Person Tetris" to relive those memories ... too bad the screen has to flip to and I can't just enjoy some Goddamn Tetris ...

 

[ThunderCavalier]

Personally, I just believe Tetris lives on just because it came out at a time where there weren't many substitutes for its type of gameplay, its music was really addicting, and it just so happened to have enough challenge to let casuals have something to do while letting hardcore people become Tetris gods.

I do agree that Angry Birds is probably a fad, but for different reasons entirely. imo, Tetris just had the right timing; Angry Birds lives on in an era of short attention spans where everyone can produce a game just as addicting as it in about half the time. It can't stand up to Tetris because of the competition it faces.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

And.......just to quash something that I thought was true....

How much did the creator of Tetris get paid for it? [http://www.glastonbridge.co.uk/flash/q.php?i=Alexey+Pajitnov+got+nothing+due+to+Communism]

Spoiler: Did you get the Klaxxon?

..first of all, it's not true, because originally I granted my rights to Tetris to my Computer Center, to my organization, for 10 years. And when those 10 years expired, I got my rights back. And since 1996, I've been receiving some royalties for it. And I'm pretty happy with what I'm getting now. And I never complain about those 10 years, either... In order to fight for my rights for the rest of my life, I decided to give it up for a while and make it happen. This decision should be done before people realize what we've given them.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

With how much Angry Birds is being milked, it's bound to fade away at some point. With $40 gigantic bird plushies and a couple different board games, it's eventually going to kill itself with overdoing the marketing.

I happen to enjoy Tetris more, but Angry Birds gets some props for being a time killer and being cute.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

He calls it a fad, I call it an overrated piece of crap that's a knockoff of far superior flash games.

This man says it how it is.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Rogers discussed this phenomenon while noting that selling Tetris swag is not easy without any recognizable characters.

What? The S and Z blocks are freakin' adorable.

That said, I don't think I'll equate Angry Birds to Tetris as a gaming institution until I see someone flawlessly playing Angry Birds at high speed after only having a half-second to look at the structure and the birds he's firing.

(If the first five minutes don't impress, watch the last minute and a half.)

He just played Tetris blind. Words fail to describe the amount of awesome there. The first 5 minutes were crazy enough by themselves, but wow.

 

[DiMono]

As for the future, Tetris certainly has history on its side, but if there's one thing the cast of Angry Birds is good at, it's knocking down blocks.

Hah! I love it when news articles include cleverness.