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Quinn: Tetris Done Right

Posted by Henry Hayes on 02/24/07 in Applications, Games

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Tetris, I pity you. If you do, you will know that Tetris is awesome but old school. Now, I don’t have a problem with old school, but it doesn’t do the awesome power of the Mac justice. Enter Quinn.

Quinn

Quinn is beautiful Tetris for your beautiful Mac. But Quinn not only has style, it has functionality. Quinn allows you to play against your friends over Bonjour, and it does so perfectly (I would show a screenshot, but I don’t have many friends willing to play me).

Quinn allows you to send your scores to an online high score database. This means that you can show your friends your score and compare it to the scores of others (some of whom have made it to over 6,000,000 points). The program is even customizable allowing you to change backgrounds and block images. And Quinn is completely free.

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    William said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 9:11 am

    Another great thing about Quinn is that you can make your own blocks and background, or use the many styles already available.
    You can also play with friends (or strangers) over the internet.
    I did an in depth review of it here:
    http://wphj.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/review-quinn/

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    Jack Cory said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 10:22 am

    awesome, I love tetris

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    Sun Chiu said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Tetris Zone is the official Tetris for Mac. I prefer official.

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    Brajeshwar said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    This is an awesome game. Don’t take much thinking and I can play anytime - airport, boring meetings and everywhere else.

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    alej744 said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    This may be the shiniest of the DG Mac apps. Anyway, I’m addicted to Tetris and even if you’ve never heard of it before, you should download this.

    Here are the custom backgrounds wphj was talking about:
    (by Louie Mantia) http://louiemantia.com/quinn/

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    Rennervater said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    I like the gloss !!! Still nothing beats tetris on a pocket pc

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    Indraneel said on

    February 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    NOTHING beat tetris on a gameboy… except everything following it

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    Alec Feld said on

    February 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am

    @ Sun Chiu:

    I don’t see how Tetris Zone is the official Mac tetris. Just because it’s an Apple Featured Download doesn’t mean its official in any way. At all.

    Apple is just featuring it and is no way official.

    Do some research before posting comments.

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    Logan Leger said on

    February 25th, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    I absolutely love Tetris and Quinn is a very aesthetically pleasing adaptation of this game.

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    Sun Chiu said on

    February 25th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    http://zone.tetris.com/

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    Sun Chiu said on

    February 25th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    The only good thing about Quinn is that its free. Tetris Zone is not free but its official. And I only trust official apps.

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    Sun Chiu said on

    February 25th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    One more thing…I don’t trust apps that have that Softpedia’s “100% Free” award.

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    Nick Cotton said on

    February 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am

    Is there a category for anti-productivity? I have wasted hours playing this.

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    Alec Feld said on

    February 27th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    Oh, so just because the Tetris company made it, it’s the official Tetris?

    Sorry, but Tetris is just a fancy name for falling blocks.

    They just copyrighted the name.

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    Yohannes Wijaya said on

    February 28th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    who cares official or not. no networking support and shareware. i pass.

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    Sam Ryan said on

    March 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Quinn is so incredibly fun. The only feature I could think of to request would be that option in some of the other Tetris games to keep moving blocks once they touch the ground - that threw me off at first.

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