TouchBricks (2003, Palm OS)

Описание: TouchBricks's predecessor was TouchTetris and came out in 2002.    • TouchTetris (2002, Palm OS)   Shortly afterwards, TTC struck it down over the "Tetris" trademark. https://web.archive.org/web/200301121...

In very late December 2003, the game was re-released under the new name TouchTris and came with many new features such as replay functionalities and a new high-resolution skin. https://web.archive.org/web/200401100... Then sometime in June or July 2004, after a couple version updates, the game was rebranded once more to TouchBricks.

I considered whether to make the title of this video to say 2003 or 2004, indicating the date of release, and eventually decided on 2003. While technically, "TouchBricks" the version you see in this video didn't come out until 2004, it can be argued that since TouchBricks is just the name rebranding of the same game TouchTris (which came out in late December 2003), it makes sense to put the release date as 2003.

I would not have found out about all this had one person not shown interest in my TouchTetris video looking for the game file. A little more searching after this initial interest shown by the commenter and I discovered Szymon's new website, which is miraculously still up after over 20 years. http://bricks.toyspring.com/

TouchBricks was downloaded from here: https://www.mobyware.org/palm-os/game... and emulated on CloudPilot https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ using the Palm-Tungsten-W-en-us.rom.

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I tried to showcase every part of this game for future reference, hence the long length of the video.

At 43:27 my Bandicam I was using to record stopped recording the video in the middle of a run and I didn't realize until about 10 minutes later. I think I must have accidentally ended the recording while swiping up haphazardly to orient the piece. I restarted the recording and began with a replay of the aforementioned cut-off run, then rounded the video up watching the various handy Demos.

I could only find the trial version of TouchBricks, which had an interesting albeit annoying feature where a tiny white box saying "TRIAL" would slowly bounce around the screen, slowly increasing in size as time goes by.

Associated Jstris skin:
https://i.imgur.com/mNjtHUD.png (#1907 in Jstris Customization Database)