It’s interesting because everyone has their definitive version of Tetris.

For me, it was the arcade coin-op made by Atari Games.

I have a friend, though, who swears by Tetris Plus for the original PlayStation. That was the first Tetris she ever played.

Here, this exhaustively explains wall kicks and how they affect basic play in Tetris:

https://tetris.wiki/Wall_kick

This is my original work, but here’s some further links if you’re curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(Spectrum_HoloByte)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1630/tetris

https://www.livescience.com/56481-strange-history-of-tetris.html

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/tetris-fun-cold-war

https://youtu.be/K8omJvkHag4

Nope, they are abandonware. You either buy the physical disks or sail the seven seas.

Both Thexder and Sorcerian were distributed by Sierra.

Thexder, in particular, was quite popular—got a Western-only sequel called Thexder 95 that was a showcase for Windows 95:

https://youtu.be/iI_qGdgybmU

It’s still playable on modern Windows.

As for Japanese games, they’re largely hit or miss on DOS. If it’s a Capcom or Konami game—it’s probably terrible. SEGA is good.

I think the game that really humiliated Capcom was the DOS port of Street Fighter II. In the early 90s, a bunch of Koreans made their own unofficial port and it shamed the official port.

This might explain why Super Street Fighter II for DOS was so much better.

I’ve played many games from the era. There were quite a few DOS games that had much smoother scrolling even if there wasn’t specialized hardware for it. Thexder, made in 1988, is a good example of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwHKg2aUB0I

The truth is, a good many Japanese games that were converted to DOS just weren’t very good.

There were exceptions, though. SEGA games tended to be excellent. And I have to say that anything by Nihon Falcom was amazing – to this day, Sorcerian is a standout on DOS.

That happened to me more than once—though not with this game.

Yeah, that’s the one.

I’m playing the PC version. Haven’t tried on Steam Deck yet but this is mostly mouse-driven.

It’s all right, but have you played Goonies for the MSX? It’s quite different from the NES version.

PSP was released in 2004.

If it were a person, it would be able to vote.

I know, but I have so much hardware at my house. I really don’t want to hoard stuff. I have two old PCs I have to get rid of, and a bunch of GPUs too.

No, a super corporate title would be “Analyzing the Platform Disparity: The Unconventional Release Trajectory of The Simpsons Arcade Game Across Home and Console Systems”

Which you’d probably find less clickbait but would be absolutely perfect for aligning synergies.

If your critique is that I tried to write an interesting title, guilty as charged. But who doesn’t try to be interesting?

Thing is, this being Lemmy, there’s no incentive to click. Clickbait literally implies a reason to click. The pertinent thing worth seeing is already in your feed.