Speed Demos Archive - Tetris Attack

Released in August 1996 for the SNES, Tetris Attack is a puzzle game with swapping tiles, which does not actually have anything to do with Tetris or attacking. Tetris Attack was previously released as Panel de Pon in Japan, but Nintendo decided that skinning the interface with characters from Yoshi's Island would increase the game's popularity tenfold. They were correct.

Note: Runs on stage clear mode are not allowed because they make people fall asleep.

Best single-segment versus mode time: very hard 0:06:19 by Bas 'Iron Knuckle' van de Ven on 2007-05-04.

I did several runs on this to find out that the CPU is rather dumb, even on the S-Hard difficulty. Basically when you drop a garbage block which is just enough to fill up his screen, then the CPU will always choose to remove all extending blocks to make the stack equally high for each column before trying to clear it. This is it's weakness as in most cases this takes too much time you can get really easy kills on him (as shown against Hookbill and Navel Piranha). Most of the time small chains are often more effective than longer ones.

If I didn't screw up against Raphael the Raven I would consider it to be a great run. There was too little pressure on Raphael's screen, and so I was unable to push him over the edge before the 30 seconds mark. Then he starts breaking the garbage making me lose valuable time.