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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This is just inherent to the history of games stemming from arcades. If you "finished" the game you had to insert more coins again, basically every game was structured so that if you "won" you kept playing until you finally lost, setting a high score.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

While that's true in general, tetris wasn't designed for arcades.

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe not the original Tetris, but there are many very popular arcade ports. Early versions of Tetris didnt even have line clears and the game just ended when the board filled.

[–] ActionBasto@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i've never heard if a version of tetris without line clears. as far as i know it was in the original version distrubuted on floppy disks.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, quick Google search shows the original 1984 mono chromatic one had line clears and kept track of score. Homie is clearly making stuff up

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