Angry Birds and Tetris get games at Toy Fair 2011
Birds and blocks
Two portable games - timeless puzzle classic Tetris and modern day time waster Angry Birds - are behind brand new toys and board games being shown off at the 2011 Toy Fair in London.
Rovio’s fowl-flinging game now has a tie-in catapult, with a plastic launcher designed to fling soft foam balls - featuring your favourite Angry Birds - across the room. Unfortunately, in the name of safety, the special design means you can only fire the Angry Birds-brand soft projectile.
As for Tetris, the Game Boy launch game now has its own competitive board game. Named Tetris Link, and produced by IDEAL, its a “strategic game of linking and blocking” that’s about slotting together your blocks while simultaneously stopping your opponent from making their own links. You’ll lose points for leaving gaps between carelessly placed “Tetriminos”.
This is, surprisingly enough, not the first board game based on the Russian block-slotter. There was Milton Bradley’s horrendously awful jigsaw-style puzzle game, and the stylish Tetris Tower Block 3D from Radica in 2003.
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