## Description
_Fintris_ is a shareware _Tetris_ based game from Finland. This
implementation is entirely keyboard controlled. It has three game modes, a
usual single player mode, a simultaneous mode where two players play side by
side, and a duel mode where players compete over a number of games to outscore
each other with the same blocks.
There’s an additional, optional, refinement called ‘mana’ which is described
as “a sort of energy that you can use to activate cannons and manipulate the
block queue”. Mana is accumulated during game play and by clearing lines, it
allows the player to zap awkward lines with the cannon and to use the ‘Remove
Block’ and ‘Duplicate Block’ options. In addition the game can be played with
standard blocks, or with two extended block sets, has a high score table and
music.
The shareware game is fully playable but displays annoying in-game messages
ranging from random quotations to reminders to register. The registered
version has mouse and sound blaster support, custom game configurations so the
player does not have to re-select their preferred options again, and the in-
game messages disappear. The game plays in Finnish, English or German.
Fintris