UNIS - V2E
This is a game that I have waited a life time to play. Billed as Tetris for the spatially challenged, UNIS gets rid of the awkwardness of different shapes and replaces it with a simple cube. Loading the TZX file presents the player with a simple but effective loading screen. Once loaded the player is offered the choice between using the keyboard or Kempston joystick. The latter wasn't tried in this review due to a lack of the required hardware. Since there is no need to rotate the playing piece the keyboard is limited to 3 key O and P to move left and right and A to drop the piece faster. The object is to make lines of cubes the same colour vertically, once you have 5 in a row, the row will disappear. Initially the pieces drop slower than a snail with a terrible hangover, but as lines are formed this speeds up to the maximum speed the BASIC program is capable of running at. Pressing left or right causes the pieces to keep moving in that direction until a wall is hit or you p...