Posted on 12/14/2013 at 11:26 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
I was never good at Tetris as a kid, due to my mistaken belief that you were supposed to stack the blocks (yeah, I wasn't the brightest when it came to puzzle games), but that little Russian ditty is a classic. Nowadays I can regularly get to level 50 or above on freetetris.org, but I miss that awesome music.
As for Pokemon, I only ever played Blue and Red, mostly because the initial Pokemon craze hit when I was in middle school. I haven't played past those because I'm not big on JRPGs. Despite the problems you've noticed with them, they were much simpler than most JRPGs I remember playing, and I dug the collectathon gimmick, so I got much farther in them than most games I played in that genre.
I'll trust you that they've improved though, they must be doing something right for the series to continue this long. And I wish that glitch in Crystal had been present in the initial releases. Having Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur on one file would have been cool.
I never played the other titles you mention, but they all sound like games I'd like to play, so I may refer back to this list if I'm searching online for something to play, or if I find myself at a used game store in the near future.