
Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company (Founders Talk #7)
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How to Rotate a Piece in a Game
Sega had a different way in the Nintendo game when the piece got to the bottom as soon as it touched blocks in the, what do we call the matrix in the play field? It's like locked down as instant, but in the Sega, you could drop it, land it. Once it's landed, you could still rotate it and move it. So this meant, this meant that you could, uh, hard drop a piece and then you could like drop it and rotate and drop it. You could, in fact, most of the thinking time that you have about what to do with the piece is after you drop it. In the Nintendo game, it's all happening while the
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