Hey look, it's those pesky scientists who kidnapped Joel and forced him to watch really bad movies, but what does Mystery Science Theater 3000 have to do with Wordtris? Actually, this commercial is so comically bad that I debated even including it in with the rest of the adverts. I don't care how mad those scientists are, there's no reason for them to be holding a lit bomb, dynamite, an acid ... that's just not safe.

And what does all this have to do with Tetris? Wordtris is the HORRIBLE "follow up" to Tetris. The truth is, after the success of Tetris just about everybody was trying to copy the formula and turn it into a franchise (see Nintendo's Bomb-Tris for the worst of the Tetris rip-offs). But Wordtris just wasn't meant to be, mostly because it was too damn hard. The original Tetris was simple, it could be explained in only a few words ... but Wordtris involved you spelling words correctly, having the luck to get the letters you need, and being frustrated when the game's dictionary let you down. This is to Tetris what hammering a nail through your hand is to ice cream.

But you wouldn't know this game was so bad by the advertisement, after all it keeps telling you that it's "better" than Tetris. But this advertisement is all you need to know it's a bad game, it features a guy who is mere seconds away from blowing everything up ... that's never a good sign. It's advertisements like this that help people forget that these companies also tried Facetris. Why won't the torture stop? Madman, you might as well just blow us up now because none of us want to experience any second of Wordtris!

FROM: Fun-Filled Days of Bad Advertising