Adopt an Arcade Game

For this blog post the class was required to play a game off the Internet Arcade from archive.org, and I chose to play good old Tetris. I've played many versions of Tetris on many different platforms, including the arcade cabinet, so I thought it would be a good game to comment on how playing it on an emulator is different from other platforms.

One of the first things I noticed was that the game was actually much easier on an emulator, as arrow keys are much more accurate than an old arcade machine joystick. Other than that, the emulator had a lot of performance problems, and constantly slowed down. Compared to versions of the game designed for computer, rather than emulated arcade machines, It ran very poorly.