Live Challenge No. 15 - Tetris... With Your Feet
Another really enjoyable meetup, with just the right amount of alcohol this time, a nice big plate of takeout sushi and a funny story of what happened on the way, which I will leave to the grindette to tell. 
And of course, also another Troll Challenge.
Winter is coming to an end, which was the season for indoor gaming, and Spring is approaching, when it will be time for sporty outside fun again. How about we combine the exercising with some gaming during this transitional phase? We are playing those older games on an emulator, so we can use any controller we like, including those ones:
In case you're not familiar, those are "dancing pads". You would step on them and operate the buttons by stepping on them with your feet.
We have a wide selection of games to choose from too, and I decided to keep it simple and classic with Tetris & Dr. Mario for the SNES. The controls are still very straightforward, you would move your pieces by stepping on the arrow keys and rotate them by stepping on the O and X buttons.
There have been some bloopers during the setting up phase and our "warm up round", which I guess I will also leave to the grindette to tell - she had quite a laugh that day. 
My original plan was to do some of those warm up rounds and then play a round of Tetris, a round of Dr. Mario, and a "Mixed Game" at the end, which is a special mode where you have to clear Tetris and Dr. Mario fields in succession.
As it turned out, however, Primrose did not enjoy the two player mode of Tetris so much. The rules are based on the well-known Gameboy version, where clearing more than one line at once makes rows of blocks appear at the bottom of your opponent's field - with a well in there, which gives your opponent the ability to counter attack too. Prim didn't like that rule a lot, it put her under a lot of pressure.
We therefore decided to switch to Dr. Mario for the challenge, with the intention to play a "Mixed Game" later, and then come up with some tie-breaker if necessary.
Those were the handicap settings we agreed on, with me starting at Level 15 and Prim at Level 5, but both of us getting "Low" speed so our feet will have some time to move.
This game too gives you the opportunity to troll. By doing combo clearances, you get to drop random blocks (they're supposed to be pills) into your opponent's field... and once again, the grindette did not enjoy that aspect of the game, even though it's a normal part of it. I got an easy 3 for 3 win (both the Tetris and Dr. Mario version are played in a "best of 5" format).
Instead of moving on to the "Mixed Games", we decided to just replay it with normal controllers and a heftier handicap for me. This one was a lot closer, but I still managed to get the 3-2 victory - and with that, also the win in the challenge, even though we didn't play with the rules I originally had in mind.
Spoiler
One challenge remained: Can we beat Super Mario Land, the game from our Troll-drinking games - while playing with our feet only (one of us would control the arrow key movement, the other player deals with A and B for jumping and running and the like).
Well... I'm happy to report that we managed to beat one stage at least. :f_biggrin::f_ugly:
You can spot the ends of some of them if you look closely. We always include sausages in this breakfast.
