The Chromatic Game Boy is getting Tetris’ best multiplayer mode

One of the champion ways to play Tetris is coming to ModRetro’s modernized version. | Image: ModRetro

ModRetro is bringing a caller multiplayer mode to the modernized mentation of Tetris that has been shipping with its recreated Game Boy, the Chromatic, since its 2024 release. The crippled already features aggregate head-to-head modes erstwhile 2 Chromatic handhelds are connected utilizing an optional Link Cable, but the caller Battle Mode is the archetypal clip that players tin interact with each other.

When 1 subordinate clears lines and reduces their Tetris stack, their opponent’s stack grows adjacent taller with “garbage lines” added to the bottommost featuring random spaces that marque them harder to clear. It was a gameplay mode included with the mentation of Tetris that shipped with the archetypal Nintendo Game Boy, and some gamers person wondered wherefore it wasn’t successful ModRetro’s mentation already.

The escaped update is disposable contiguous to each Chromatic owner, who volition beryllium capable to upgrade their Tetris cartridges utilizing the handheld’s Cart Clinic diagnostic portion it’s connected to a PC oregon Mac. Because it’s the cartridge itself being updated, and not the Chromatic, the caller Battle Mode volition besides beryllium disposable erstwhile utilizing the crippled successful different devices, similar an archetypal Game Boy Color.