[jgtrosh]

My favorite competitive Tetris mode is the Co-op mode in the Tengen NES version. It's fun to cooperate, but it's extremely fun and challenging to aim for maximum personal score while impeding the other player. There's no immediate way of avoiding players ahead from killing the game so when I play it with friends I rely on good faith that our first goal is to survive together, before counting points of “who contributed most to that survival”. If there was a way of integrating that in the scoring/gameplay it might help make that game mode more mainstream. Afaik it is barely known, let alone played, and I highly suggest trying it out with your friends.

edit:

https://youtu.be/JPPEKVUlY9w this is an example video.

Maybe if the game was a RTF (“first to 1M points”) it might avoid players from aiming to kill the game early.