As Kasparov whined over Deep Blue, I ascend to my pulpit to gripe about how terribly irritating it was to get killed at arcade Tetris the other night. After all, with nearly 400 wins at online Tetris DS, how could this happen!?! One problem is in the joystick. It takes a long time to get the thing over to the point where it actually moves the piece. If you need to move a piece over, say two spots, you have two options, smack the joystick over with two decisive thwacks, or thwack and hold for a second (Which I suspect is what the designers of the arcade machine had in mind). With a keyboard (or D-Pad), since the action is low, you can hit the key twice and know where you'll be at. Its kind of like if you had to pull a lever for each key on the keyboard when you're typing. Sometimes you have a double letter, but you don't press and hold a key every time you need to type a character twice... you just double-tap.
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