Tetrisphere 1997

Is it still worth playing?

A puzzle game developed by H2O Entertainment and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, released in North America in 1997 and in Europe in 1998. It began as a game called Phear that was meant for the Atari Jaguar, and it was reworked into a Tetris game after Nintendo got the publishing rights. Shapes are moved across a wrapped three dimensional grid that looks like a sphere, and you remove them by making three bricks of the same type touch after a drop, which sets off combos and chain reactions. The goal changes with the mode but usually means removing layers to reach the core, where a robot is trapped. There are modes that work quite differently, two player modes and computer opponents with abilities. The music is by Neil Voss. A sphere to dig into makes it a puzzle game unlike most Tetris.