Slashdot is discussing Solitaire vs. Tetris. If you have an account on Slashdot, you might want to go raid^H^H^H^H provide insight in comments to that article.
...Lost my interest there. I have tried to play Solitaire countless times without bothering to read the help file or manual, and not once has the game been self-explanatory to me.
gotta agree with the article. for every hardcore tetris player there's an office full of secretaries and bored business people playing solitaire. it's built into windows, not input heavy and old people know the game, match made in heaven.
It's not really a discussion about game quality, just the time spent playing them. Why would you "raid" slashdot to begin with? Just sounds stupid to me.
At least there's no Solitaire Holdings Company giving licenses to Solitaire Online Japan Inc. who runs Solitaire Online where you have to pay for extra cards. Or something.
From Josh Levin's article on Slate: This paragraph seems to indicate that the concept of copyrights on game mechanics is widely accepted. Even the creator of FreeCell, an "avid Linux user", sold the "rights" to the FreeCell concept to the University of Illinois. I wonder what he thinks of the Linux version of FreeCell.
Yeah, my mom clocks in about as many hours in solitare as we do in tetris. I'm trying to get her into playing tetris instead but she said it doesn't entertain her. What is the most atracting tetris game? One that just makes you want to play it?
I think TGM style modes are quite attractive and addicting but I admit that their hardcore nature does scare some away.
