5AThere's a spooky siren which starts the game off and which announces a speeding up of the falling blocks.
And disappearing rows explode with a very satisfying roar...
You can turn the racket down in 'Preferences'.
Note that if your Series 5's batteries are low, the sound will be automatically turned off.
Well, none really. Although as Tetris is not a very new game, I guess I owe a debt of thanks to the 100s of other program authors out there whose ideas I've plagiarised to one degree or another...
And thanks to the people who originally created the sound effects, which I found in the public domain...
Oh yes, and the artist who drew the F15 picture, whoever he or she is...
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Welcome!
I wrote Atomic because I was fed up with so called Tetris games being too slow or too easy. I used to be hooked on a fast and furious PC version called Blox, where you found yourself feverishly pressing every key in sight within a minute or two of starting... and I've tried to capture the same feel in Atomic.
The game is 100% freeware.
Steve Litchfield
March 13th 1998
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Oh come on. Everybody knows how to play Tetris by now! You rotate the falling blocks and shift them left and right with the arrow keys.
The blocks can be dropped into position with the down arrow key or rotated anticlockwise and clockwise using the keys you've defined in the Preferences section of the game.
When a complete row is filled (no holes), the row itself vaporises and you score some points. If you can arrange things so that several rows are completed simultaneously, you start to get even greater numbers of points. And the further you are into the game, the more each row is worth. And so on....!
Every so often you advance a 'level' and you'll hear a siren going off. Watch out, things are starting to hot up!! Those blocks keep falling faster and faster...
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