Gridshock: fast-paced matching Time Waster
Typically, when you're playing a game where the object is to keep the board from filling up with pieces, it's vertical.Being used to Tetris and all its variants, it took me a second to adjust to Gridshock, a game where you match and eliminate colored lights on a horizontal playing field. It's an easy game to get the hang of, but the lights pile up faster as the levels go on, and it's tough to avoid getting overwhelmed.
As in Tetris, you only get one color to work with at a time. Your job is to decide where to put it for maximum board-clearing effect. Any combo of 3 or 4 matching pieces will disappear, and they can be connected horizontally, vertically, or an L-shaped combination of the two.
A meter on the side that shows you when more lights are going to be unceremoniously dumped into your grid, but there's hardly time to pay attention to it.
