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Family of four killed in I-95 crash laid to rest
Four caskets sat in a row at the front of Fort Lauderdale Baptist Church: mother, daughter, stepsister and nephew.
The four family members who died last week after their car plunged into a Deerfield Beach lake were eulogized together at a four-hour funeral service Saturday in front of more than 1,000 family members, friends and classmates.
"They are not dead. They are living in the eternal life," Yolette Fabre, a pastor at Christian Life Restoration Center, where the family attended church. "Let us stand strong, firm together."
Remembered Saturday were Nadege Theodore, 37, her daughter Lyne Theodore, 15; step sister Standalie Jean-Baptiste, 20; and nephew Guivens Daverman, 16.
The family had been heading home from a shopping trip at Town Center at Boca Raton Mall the night of Jan. 2 when the Lexus sports utility vehicle they were riding in was involved in a three car crash. The silver SUV careened off the side of Interstate 95 and ended up in a lake. The others involved in the accident were not injured.
Daverman, Nadege Theodore and Jean-Baptiste were pulled out immediately. Lyne Theodore's body was not pulled out until the following morning, after police notifying next of kin learned she had been in the vehicle as well. Nadege Theodore and Daverman were pronounced dead at the hospital. Jean-Baptiste died Jan. 6.
The funeral service — which was mostly in Haitian Creole and French — was a way to remember the four family members, but many hoped it would also serve as lesson to all of the young people who attended.
"I ask the friends of those individuals that they carry out their dreams," said Karlton O. Johnson, the principal of Blanche Ely High School, where both Lyne Theodore and Daverman were sophomores.
Johnson remembered Lyne as a great student and Daverman, he said, "was the life of the party."
Many of those in attendance were friends, classmates, teacher and faculty from the Pompano Beach high school. Many donned the school's orange and green colors.
Throughout the emotional ceremony, the prayers on stage were often drowned out by sobbing and wailing from mourners.
There were three white steel caskets adorned with pink and white flower bouquets for the three females. Daverman was laid to rest in a black casket.
Pictures of each of them sat next to their casket.
Throughout the service, a slide show flashed on a large screen, telling the story of their lives through pictures:
Nadege as an adult with a red flower in her and a red dress, and one of her with her daughter. Lyne Theodore in a pink tank top and jeans, posing for the camera. Guivens posing with the number four on his fourth birthday, and later as a teenager sporting a black baseball cap with "Jesus" embroidered on it. Standalie as a child making a sassy pose, and later grown up wearing a business suit.
Nadege Theodore was born in 1975 in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. In 1999, she moved to South Florida with her daughter. She worked as a nurse's assistant and had an 8-year-old son named Deemily Charles.
At 15, Lyne Theodore was the youngest in the car. She was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti, in 1997. She was in the medical magnet program in her high school and wanted to become a nurse.
Jean-Baptiste was born in 1992 in l'Artibonite, Haiti. She came to South Florida in 2005. She attended Lyons Middle School in Coconut Creek and then Deerfield Beach Highand graduated from Broward College in 2012. She dreamed of becoming an anthropologist.
Guivens Daverman was born in1996 in Fort Lauderdale, the son of Theodore's sister Myrlande Theodore. He was known as Papi, and loved to help others. He was on the football team and ran track.
A composed 10-year-old Princeley Dorvil took the podium to talk about his brother Guivens Daverman and his other family members.
"My brother was a very cool brother, he taught me a lot of things in life," said Princeley, fighting back tears. "He taught me how to respect others. He taught me how to use my manners. He taught me how to be well-dressed."
Daverman's coach at Blanche Ely gave the family the boy's football jersey and a team photo.
Before the final prayer, teammates of Daverman donned white gloves and blue ribbons with Daverman's picture and a poem, and helped remove all the flower bouquets as condolences were read aloud.
When the ceremony was over, the pall bearers carried each of the four caskets into the hearses as family and friends gathered around.
A cousin of Daverman, sobbing and in tears, put his hands on the outside of the black hearse as it slowly drove away.
The four family members were laid to rest at Forest Lawn North Memorial Gardens.
Miami Herald staff reporter Nadege Green and photographer Marsha Halper contributed to this report.


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The Philadelphia Eagles have claimed D.J. Jones off waivers from the Ravens, who waived the undrafted rookie offensive tackle from Nebraska before their win over the Houston Texans in the AFC divisional round.
Jones was waived on Jan. 14 so the Ravens could promote linebacker Josh Bynes from their practice squad.
Jones, 23, a 6-foot-5, 315-pound tackle, was signed by the Miami Dolphins before the 2011 season. After the Dolphins waived him from their practice squad on Oct. 17, the Ravens signed him to theirs two days later. He was promoted to the 53-man roster in Week 17, but he didn't play in the season-ending victory in Cincinnati.
The Eagles on Tuesday announced on Twitter that they had claimed Jones.

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(Reuters) - Josh Brown booted a 43-yard field goal with four seconds left to play to earn the Cincinnati Bengals a 13-10 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers and a ticket to the National Football League playoffs on Sunday.
The victory was the Bengals' (9-6) first over their bitter AFC North rivals in six meetings and eliminated the Steelers (7-8) from post-season contention spoiling the holiday mood for the capacity crowd who had arrived at Heinz Field expecting to kick off the Christmas holidays with a win.
"It's very satisfying, quite honestly," Brown told reporters. "I've had some bad runs against Pittsburgh, including a bad game with the Rams last year, so really I just needed to exercise some demons.
"It's a good Christmas."
The outcome marks the first since 2006 that the Steelers will enter the final game of the regular season with no chance to make the playoffs while the Bengals earned back-to-back post-season berths for the first time in 30 years.
"It was not our day, not our year, not enough physical play at the moment," said Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. "It sounds like a broken record but the reality, as we sit here, we accept responsibility for it. ...
"It's disheartening because we had chances."
As is typical when the Steelers and Bengals clash, the meeting was a bruising defensive battle, the Cincinnati defense accounting for the Bengals' only touchdown when Leon Hall intercepted Ben Roethlisberger in the opening quarter and returned the ball 17 yards for the score.
Roethlisberger connected with Antonio Brown on a 60-yard touchdown in the third quarter to get Pittsburgh back into the contest but made a critical mistake with 14 seconds to play, throwing his second interception that was returned to the Steelers 46.
Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton then hooked up with A.J. Green on a 21-yard pass to set up Brown's game-winning kick.
Pittsburgh had a chance to take control with 1:47 left on the clock when Shaun Suisham lined up to attempt a 53-yard field goal into the teeth of Heinz Field's notorious swirling winds. But the kick fell short, giving the Bengals the ball.
Brown had missed on a 56-yard attempt on the previous series as both teams struggled to generate offence.
Roethlisberger, who was intercepted in overtime in last Sunday's loss to the Dallas Cowboys, completed 14-of-28 passes for 220 yards but was under pressure all afternoon from a tenacious Bengals pass rush that sacked the Pittsburgh quarterback four times.
Pittsburgh's top-ranked defense surrendered just 14 yards rushing while Dalton completed just 24-of-41 attempts for 278 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions. Almost half of Dalton's completions went to Green, who hauled in 10 catches for 116 yards.
"It's a big win for the city of Cincinnati," said Bengals coach Marvin Lewis. "We did a good job of hanging in there and not flinching and making big plays.
"There were a lot of big plays today. A lot of guys came up with big plays.
"That's what you have to keep having all the time."
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; editing by Gene Cherry)


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The Week in Review:
Best killer instinct: The fall football season is only two weeks old, but UVA is already developing the swagger of a national powerhouse. The 15th ranked Wahoos manhandle longtime rival North Carolina's Tar Heels 56-24 in front of a rowdy Scott Stadium home crowd Saturday, September 11. UVA's ground game proves unstoppable all afternoon, as the Cavs relentlessly pound the Heels. "It didn't matter whether they got the ball on their 1, on their 5, or on the 40," UNC head coach John Bunting tells the Tar Heels' athletic site. "They scored every single time they got the ball."
Biggest playoff drama: The Richmond Braves knock off the Columbus Clippers 4-1 in the decisive Game 5 at the Diamond Monday night. The R-Braves now advance to meet the Buffalo Bison to play for the Governor's Cup.
Most surprising return: After making their phenomenal run in the state AA championship game last fall, the Monticello Mustangs were considered a rebuilding team in 2004. MHS makes a strong statement in the first game back as they travel across town to down the Albemarle Patriots 21-6 September 10. Monticello never loses control of the game, retaining possession of the football nearly twice as long as AHS. "They were taking it to us, just hammering us," AHS coach Rick Vrhovak tells the Daily Progress. "We looked like deer in headlights."
Smoothest sailing soccer team: UVA women's soccer wins another tournament title, capturing the Nike Soccer Classic at Klöckner Stadium over the weekend. The fifth-ranked Lady Cavs actually have to work for the victory this time, giving up their first goal of the season while defeating eighth ranked UCLA 3-1 Friday night, September 10. But after falling behind 1-0 to South Carolina Sunday afternoon, the Hoos respond to scorch the Gamecocks in a 5-2 triumph to post a perfect 6-0 for the season so far.
Most renewed Redskins: Head Coach Joe Gibbs' first victory in over a decade is fittingly the 500th for the franchise as the Skins knock off Tampa Bay 16-10 in their season opener Sunday. Halfback Clinton Portis makes the difference as he breaks free for a 64-yard touchdown run on his first regular season play. Linebacker Lavar Aarrington and the Redskins defense meanwhile hold down the Bucs and preserve the victory. "We're absolutely thrilled," Gibbs tells Redskins.com. "I don't know when we've fought any harder. I think both teams laid it out there as best they could. It was a hard-fought football game."
Thursday, Sept. 16 @ 7pm
Richmond Braves v. Buffalo Bison
After two days in Buffalo, the R-Braves return to their hometown for Game Three of the International League finals. Games Four and Five (if necessary in this best-of-five series) will follow on the September 17 and 18 in Richmond.
Friday, Sept. 17 @ 7:30pm
Orange vs. Chancellor
Can the No.1 Hornets do it again? OCHS blasted the Madison Mountaineers 35-6 Friday, September 10, opening their football season with a solid 2-0 record.
Saturday, Sept. 18 @ 3pm
UVA Football vs. Akron
It's Homecoming, and coach Al Groh's Cavs are heavy favorites to cruise to another victory. With everyone relaxed, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. UVA must not overlook the Zips if they want to continue nudging the nation's top programs. If you don't have season tickets, this might be your best chance to find a way into Scott Stadium with a relaxed crowd. Game is sold out, like all Wahoo football games, but this will likely be the most commonly sold ticket. And those 3,200+ loose seats should be repaired by then.
Sunday, Sept. 19 @ 3pm
UVA Women's Soccer vs. William & Mary
The ladies look incredibly sharp, so far definitely proving themselves worthy of the nation's top-five ranking. Help the Cavs keep their perfect season alive as they host the William & Mary Tribe at Klöckner Sunday afternoon. $6 Adults, $4 Youth.
Faulty seat anchors at the Carolina game haven't dimmed Groh's team's record.


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10 years and 4 stars: "It's a matter of trust"
When choosing an organization to support, donors tell me over and over again "it's a matter of trust."
The phone calls I receive as a fundraiser usually start like this: "I was researching an organization on Charity Navigator and saw that the charity is not using donations for the things they say they are. I saw your name and top rating, and decided I would donate to you instead." Each time I hear that, it reinforces how important it is that our donors trust in us, and that we continue to earn that trust.
We devote a great deal of time and energy tracking our funds and reporting the impact our donors have on military families. If something works well, we expand it. If it doesn't, we go back to the drawing board to make it better. We strive to do things as efficiently as possible, without lowering the high standards we owe to the military families who rely on us. This commitment over decades of service has helped us develop and nurture trusting relationships with our donors.
As a result of our hard work, the National Military Family Association recently received Charity Navigator's coveted 4-Star rating for our 10th consecutive year. Charity Navigator is America's largest and most-used independent evaluator – or "watchdog" – of charities. We're proud to be among the 1% of charities rated that have ever received 10 or more straight years of this top rating.
We strive to be good stewards of the trust placed in us by military families and donors who want to help. Our Executive Director, Joyce Raezer said it best: "Military families are our Nation's families, and it is our duty to protect and serve them, as they do for us on a daily basis. We look forward to continuing our mission in 2013 and encourage all Americans to take part in it with us."
To our donors – a big "thank you" for your ongoing support and trust. We realize that there are so many worthy causes you can support. We're grateful you choose to put your trust in us and make your donation to our Association. If you're looking for a charity worthy of your support, learn more about our Association and check out our rating on Charity Navigator. I look forward to speaking with you!
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ROCKLEDGE, FL - "After weeks of the Wuesthoff Board (now the Space Coast Health Foundation) stonewalling the public about the amount that it paid the former Wuesthoff top executives for "golden parachutes" we can now understand why it was trying to hide the information. The extraordinary money paid to these former executives belongs to the Brevard community and it should have gone to help provide essential health care in this community. As disturbing as these payments are, it is even more troubling that the Board tried to hide them, especially since many of those dollars were generated by charitable giving from the community.
"The Wuesthoff Board claimed their hospitals had to be sold because they were struggling financially, so it can't possibly believe that the former executives deserved to be paid big bonuses for extraordinary performance.
"While it may be too late to recover these millions of dollars, it is important that the Board of the new Foundation spend the remaining money more wisely. We question spending even more of the community's funds to continue the antitrust lawsuit against Health First. We further question how this lawsuit benefits the community. This lawsuit has always been poorly conceived, and without merit. Continuing pursuit of this lawsuit will do nothing to increase the funds available for health care in Brevard County or to improve delivery, but will only enrich attorneys. The real loser from the Foundation's lawsuit will be the community that will continue to be short-changed.
"We call on the Foundation Board to get some common sense and start thinking about what is best for Brevard."


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Superior Fitness Systems (Superior Corporate Boot Camp & Superior Boot Camps are my two main businesses under the parent name)
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My personal training is high end with professionalism and long term commitments from my clients. I want to be their trainer for life. I want them to give me referrels because they love working with me so much. I want them to be able to portray that they are lucky to have a spot to train. I want to give scarcity and demand in my message. I don't want vanity at all, it's not about that. I want people to have the image that through my logo I mean serious business with a high demand for my services and they'd be willing to pay the fee.
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A Tool for Finding the Best Employees
KARL ULRICH: The "hackathon" has emerged as an effective way to find exceptional engineering talent. Aspiring software developers gather for a two-day event in which individuals and teams compete to develop the best application in response to some compelling challenge. Judges (and increasingly sponsors) observe the results and designate the most successful efforts. For instance, the PennApps hackathon at my own university attracts more than 2000 applicants from all over the country and is sponsored by Facebook, Amazon, and Google among others.
For software engineering, a domain in which a great coder can be worth 10 times more than an average coder, the hackathon is a powerful tool to accurately reveal who is great and who is only average. Plus, the mere fact that you travel to a hackathon, and commit 48 hours without sleep to the quest, reveals quite a bit about your abilities. No wonder the most powerful technology companies line up to sponsor the events and observe the outcomes.
But, in management more generally, say in operations or marketing, isn't a great employee worth 10 times more than an average employee? Might there be an event analogous to the hackathon for identifying and recruiting managerial talent? True, it's hard to imagine the appeal of a competition for who can run the best meeting or make the best PowerPoint deck. But, imagine a series of events over two days for revealing who is great at, say, generating ideas, giving a sales pitch, organizing a team to accomplish a goal, or improving the productivity of a process. We know that conventional interviews are terrible at predicting job performance.
Let's take inspiration from the hackathon and devise some fun, compelling, and challenging events that reveal those who are great at what they do, not just those who went to the right schools and can ace an interview.
Karl Ulrich is vice dean of innovation and CIBC professor of entrepreneurship and e-commerce at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Read the latest Leadership Report.


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We are an online affiliate marketing education company, and we are re-launching our product on a new platform. The company is professional yet fun, and we try to bring a unique twist to everything we do.
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Google's earnings report showed the company's numbers were up Thursday but not enough to make investors smile.
The Mountain View-bases search giant reported a 6 percent gain in fourth-quarter earnings. But while the numbers were up, it missed Wall Street's expectations.
Instead analysts were expecting earnings of $10.51 per share on net revenue of $8.43 billion, according to estimates from FactSet Research.
Google delivered $2.71 billion, or $8.22 per share, an increase of 9.2 percent from the same period a year ago, which was $7.81 per share, or $2.54 billion.


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It's over, and we lost. Or did we?
Confession time – I expected to be devastated after a NO vote, but in the event, I wasn't. My immediate reaction was one of relief, which baffled me and left me feeling ashamed of myself. I watched the ecstatic NO groups celebrating and the tearful YES groups staring bleakly into space, my heart went out to them, and the question returned – why don't I feel like that?
In the years leading up to this moment, my biggest fear was not that we would lose – it was that we would win with a narrow majority after a polarised campaign, and the new Scotland would start in very troubled times.
Even with my scepticism over UK's motives and methods, the scale of their unprincipled onslaught in the final weeks staggered me. It also convinced me that if we won, it would be by the narrowest of margins and that we would be subject to intense pressures to ensure that our new Scotland failed.
Any Government that was capable of perverting the apparatus of the state to secure their ends - e.g., Treasury, Whitehall, the Civil Service, the 'think-tanks' – and was willing to engineer a possibly criminal leak of information to media from a board meeting in progress - i.e. RBS - that was calculated to destabilise the markets – was capable of anything. The last minute Big Bribe was the final evidence.
Although I would have rejoiced in a narrow win, and fervently hoped that Scotland could make independence work against this wall of hostility, the gnawing, subliminal idea took root that maybe the time was now wrong.
In the event, the outcome was decisive for NO – Scotland had rejected its independence, rejected its chance to make history and had acted out of fear or complacency – or both - rather than vision, confidence and hope.
The attack by an organised mob of male thugs brandishing Union Jacks and throwing flares at a mixed sex group of YES supporters sharing their grief in George Square, Glasgow – my native city, and a city that had voted YES – underlined my fears.
But a recent tweet of mine summed up my view of validity of the result. While accepting its democratic reality, and feeling bound by it, my feeling was -
How can a referendum outcome based on news management and intimidation of voters by vested interests be the "settled will" of Scots?
Judging by the immediate reactions to that tweet, and the subsequent number of retweets in the hundreds (more than anything I've ever tweeted, in over 43,000 tweets), that view resonated with many of the 1.6 million Scots who voted for independence.
YouGov post-ballot poll - with a sample three time the normal size (3,188 voters) - showed fascinating stats on how people voted (if you accept poll validity).
74% of those born in rUK voted NO. By definition, that includes the very large block of English-born residents in Scotland. 51% of voters born in Scotland voted YES. Those stats alone trigger interesting speculations, but I won't offer opinions on them that I can't substantiate.
Analysed by party support affiliation, 27% of Labour and 29% of LibDems said YES, but only 8% of Tories. Of the five demographic bands, four were majority No vote – only the 25-39 group voted YES – 55% of them.
20% of those who claimed to be SNP supporters vote NO.(Related findings came from poll after 2011 Holyrood SNP landslide – not all SNP voters were YES supporters.)
Initial reactions (my subjective impressions from media, online comment and direct contacts) ranged from despair and grief through bewilderment from those who had been in denial at polls - preferring to believe instead that a YES majority was being hidden - to real, visceral anger and feelings of betrayal.
The latter emotions were raw online on Friday morning, with wild accusations of betrayal of the young by the old (prompted by Ashcroft poll of young voters) being flung about including by one high-profile activist who should have known better, as if exacerbating the tension already present within many families would offer a constructive way forward.
I was aware that for the essentially secondary online activists, the betrayal would be felt less keenly than by the dedicated, exhausted and by now potentially demoralised front-end activists from the streets, the doorsteps, the public place and public meetings. They were the ones who had shifted the polls so close to victory – and they had not had the offset of mini-celebrity, visibility, networked contacts and in some cases much more tangible benefits that others had received – perfectly legitimately – to cushion the shock of the result.
Similar considerations may be applied to those who had been salaried for all or part of the campaign – the politicians and the YES staff.
I say these things, not in any spirit of criticism, but as a recognition of a harsh reality in all politics: that, of necessity, the security of paid political professionals and the economic and career gains of a minority rest on the unpaid work of an army of dedicated and usually unrewarded and often unrecognised body of activists.
These were the supporters of YES who were, in addition to giving of their precious time and energies, were also engaging in repeated acts of incredible generosity, crowd-funding all sorts of worthy, valid, and in some cases, absolutely vital initiatives that made significant contributions to the greatest grassroots campaign ever see in British politics.
But the most incredible contribution of that group was then delivered in a matter of days after the ballot – the massive and entirely unexpected surge in SNP membership, (unparallelled to my knowledge in British politics) from around 25,000 to well over 62,000 at the last count, now exceeding the combined membership of the other Scottish parties and overtaking the UK-wide membership of the LibDems.
In the midst of the chaotic responses to the NO vote, and the burgeoning of a rash of online groups clustering round the magic number of 45, this was a great cry of endorsement for the SNP, accompanied by a steely resolve to not just support the party that had taken Scotland so far towards achieving its independence, but underline Alex Salmond's recognition in his resignation speech that the great democratic and re-energised Scottish body politic was now less in need of leaders, but still in need of politicians and a party that would carry their agenda forward – the sovereign Scottish YES people.
I'd planned to offer my perceptions of that key question in this blog, but having already expended over 1200 words on reviewing reactions, I feel that I would test the stamina of my readers for the moment.
But I'll be back tomorrow or early next weeks, because I have a lot more. to say.
I'll close with my blog motto - Id dico quod ego morior - non habetis audire, which is in Latin to make it sound more profound than it really is, and to give an entirely spurious gloss of learning to my ragbag reality – "I say what I must – you don't have to listen!"


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| 0 || 2 || Blue / Cyan || Very crisp colors and reminiscent of [[Mega Man]].
| 0 || 2 || Blue / Cyan || Very crisp colors and reminiscent of [[Mega Man]].
| 1 || 3 || Forest / Chartreuse || A nice combo, very comforting.
| 1 || 3 || Forest / Chartreuse || A nice combo, very comforting.
| 2 || 5 || Magenta / Pink || This one always made me think of cotton candy.
| 2 || 5 || Magenta / Pink || This one always made me think of cotton candy.
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- This page is for the Nintendo version of Tetris released on the Game Boy and NES. For other releases, see Tetris.
Tetris, known in Russian as Тетрис, and in Japan as テトリス [Tetorisu], is an action puzzle game originally created by Alexey Pajitnov on an Electronika 60 computer, however, this page covers a version released by Nintendo for the Game Boy and NES. The Game Boy version, developed by Bullet-Proof Software, was published by Nintendo first in Japan in July of 1989, then in North America in August. Nintendo derived the NES port from the original Game Boy version and published it in North America in November of 1989. The Famicom did not see this release in Japan because Bullet-Proof Software held the publishing rights there. Despite having two different developers, the games are both very similar and share some development staff.
While later releases of Tetris would have many different variations, this earlier release only contains two types of game play which are referred to as A-Type and B-Type. A-Type is endless game mode, and B-Type requires you to get 25 lines to win. Each mode supports starting at any level from 1-10 and has the option of an empty well, or a well filled with a variable level of garbage.
I do not own either of the ports. I beat B-Type, level: 10, height: 5 on the Game Boy on 2017-12-09 and the NES on 2017-12-18.
- Overall: 6/10
- Best Version: NES
- Despite the window dressing, the game is a pretty faithful port of the original.
- The game is a lot of fun, and I rarely get tired of it even after decades of playing it.
- Both versions have great music, though I prefer the options on the NES port.
- I really enjoy the changing color-palette across levels in the NES port. I wish later Tetris games would follow this innovation, but The Tetris Company has since created an invariable color set that must be followed.
- The controls on both the Game Boy and NES versions are a bit stiff and difficult to work with sliding.
- The NES port annoyingly clears the screen when you pause. I assume they did this to prevent cheating, but it essentially guarantees failure on the harder difficulty levels making the feature pointless.
- Nothing.
Box Art
The Japanese Game Boy box uses a theme popularized in Atari covers: placing abstract shapes out in space. I like the super-imposed Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood over the shapes, and color choice fits the Russian flag. Unfortunately, the nice art is framed with the ugly gray Japanese Game Boy box.
- youtube.com/watch?v=-FAzHyXZPm0 - Longplay, NES. A-Type max score, B-Type level 9 all heights.
- youtube.com/watch?v=lzXXtLqu63w - Tool assist, reach level 255.
Port Differences
- The NES game features ten color palettes that cycle across the levels.
- The NES has three musical options, the Game Boy only two, each song is different.
- The NES version is slightly harder at identical difficulty levels.
- Strangely, the NES port, which has two built-in controller ports, is strictly a 1-player game, but the Game Boy, which only has an optional connection port, features 2-player mode.
The NES port alters the color of the tetrominoes as you progress through the levels. It has 10 programmed palettes which cycle through as the levels progress. The game has a bug after level 137 where the color palette becomes garbled. I've created a graphic which shows the 10 normal palettes and ranked them below.
|Blue / Cyan
|Very crisp colors and reminiscent of Mega Man.
|Forest / Chartreuse
|A nice combo, very fresh and comforting.
|Magenta / Pink
|This one always made me think of cotton candy.
|Blue / Green
|Reminds me of the old Seattle Seahawks logo.
|Red / Seafoam
|Christmasy colors, pastel but just as clashing. Ugly.
|Seafoam / Cornflower
|I looks nice together if you like boring pastels lacking contrast.
|Red / Gray
|This one reminds me of lava and ash. I'm always happy to see this palette.
|Purple / Burgundy
|Nice combo, and the only double-dark set.
|Blue / Red
|Makes me think of the American flag, but the colors aren't dark enough.
|Red / Orange
|Yuck. It makes me think of clowns or fast food logos.
- mobygames.com/game/nes/tetris_nes - MobyGames (NES).
- mobygames.com/game/tetris_gb - MobyGames (Game Boy).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - Wikipedia.
- tcrf.net/Tetris_(Nintendo,_NES)/en - The Cutting Room Floor.
- vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Tetris_(NES) - Music.
- thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php?title=Tetris - NES Hacker Database.