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Memory Pak: The Best And Most Chaotic Way To Play Puyo Puyo Tetris

Pi pi pi pi! PI PIIII.

Today, Puyo Puyo Tetris turns five years old. I think that maybe very few people will care about this — it’s just Tetris with more colours and annoying characters, really — but for me, Puyo Puyo Tetris was the foundation upon which my current relationship was built. Come back in time with me to 2017, and I’ll tell you a story of love, tetrominoes, and one talkative egg…

In March 2017, the Nintendo Switch came out. As I’ve written about before, I was travelling the world at the time, and it became almost as important to me during that period as my passport. In April 2017, Puyo Puyo Tetris came out, combining the massively-successful Japanese arcade game Puyo Puyo with the massively-successful Tetris game, Tetris. Several new characters were created for the game, who were all based on tetrominoes — Tee, Ess, Ai, Jay, Elle, and so on — but the most important of all is O.

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