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Random: Shinji Mikami Had To Ban The Resident Evil Devs From Playing Tetris Attack

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The Tetris Attack effect.

At one point or another we've all found ourselves playing some ridiculously addictive game when we know we should really be doing something else, whether it's working or walking the dog or taking gran to her doctor's appointment. Video games, eh?! It seems that during development of the original
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on PlayStation, the development team got so distracted by
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that director Shinji Mikami had to put a ban on playing the Super NES game.

This is according to PlatinumGames developer and industry veteran Hideki Kamiya in a newly translated interview that went up on
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recently. As spotted by
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, the interview with Kamiya and his younger brother (who's not in the game industry) is called Growing Up with Games and was originally published in Famitsu in 2017, but it's now available in English on Platinum's website. While reminiscing about retro games, the pair recalled playing Tetris Attack (or Panel de Pon as the not-really-Tetris-at-all game is known in Japan):

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