by Vinson Chen

Created on: August 19, 2009

Tetris is one of the world's most famous puzzle game and is renowned for its simple yet incredibly fun gameplay. Nintendo did no wrong by choosing to milk out this amazing game by adding it into the Nintendo DS's game list. Tetris DS ended up receiving incredibly high ratings so much so that after Nintendo stopped releasing more copies of the game, the price of a Tetris DS cartridge rose to over $60 a copy.

With the addition of six new gaming modes for Tetris DS, but while keeping a slightly revised version of the standard puzzle game available for play, the game became a huge success. These new modes included Mission Mode, Push Mode, Touch Mode, Catch Mode, Puzzle Mode, and although not listed as a mode in the game, the WiFi multiplayer gaming.

Standard Mode is not listed as one of the new gaming modes due to the fact that it created back in 1984. However, it is still a playable mode because it is the heart and soul of all the branch-offs that Tetris DS included in its game. Now the whole point of the original Tetris is to keep seven different falling tetrominoes from stacking up to the top of the screen. In order to do this players stack the tetrominoes in ways so that they will fill up the horizontal length of the playing screen. Whenever a length is fully filled, that row of single blocks will disappear and the rest of the pieces lying on top of it will fall down. This allows for more room for players to continue to complete lines of square blocks.

Mission Mode is where players attempt to complete missions that are preset for them. These can include clearing a certain number of rows, clearing a row with a certain piece, or clearing a line of blocks at a certain height. This mode uses a Legend of Zelda based background with music from that Nintendo series.

Push Mode is one of the modes that is available not only as a single player game, but as a multiplayer one as well. The goal of this mode is to complete more rows of bricks than the opposing player in order to push the set of bricks down. The player's view on the screen is a normal upright view of the Tetris gameplay, but with the opposing player being on the bottom side of the screen trying to push the pieces up. Once one player is pushed all the way to their top which is marked by a danger line.

Touch Mode is only playable on the DS because of the DS's touch screen. Players move the pieces of tetrominoes that are preset in a random fashion in order to clear rows of bricks as normally seen

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