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Tetris (styled TETЯIS) is a puzzle game developed by Atari Games was originally released for arcades in 1988 (including the Nintendo VS System), it was based on Mirrorsoft's Tetris. The game features the same gameplay as the original computer editions of the game and several difficulty levels and two-player simultaneous play. A NES port was released in May 1989 by Tengen, which it was unlicensed by Nintendo for the system.

History and Development
In 1987, Soviet Academy of Sciences researcher Alexey Pajitnov (who invented the original game in 1984) alongside Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov developed a new version of Tetris out of a desire to create a two-player puzzle game. Andromeda Software executive Robert Stein approached Pajitnov with an offer to distribute Tetris worldwide, and secured the rights to license the title. He in turn sub-licensed the rights to Mirrorsoft for the European market and Spectrum HoloByte for the North American market. After seeing the game run on an Atari ST, programmer Ed Logg petitioned Atari Games to license it for an arcade version, and approached Stein. With the rights secured, Atari Games produced an arcade version of Tetris, and under their Tengen subsidiary began development to port the title to the Nintendo Entertainment System in June 1988. The port was released in May 1989.

Mirrorsoft later sub-licensed the rights to Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software to distribute Tetris in Japan. Around this same time, Nintendo was asked by Bullet-Proof Software with the prospect of developing a version of Tetris for the Game Boy, and Rogers traveled to Moscow to secure permission to distribute Tetris with the Game Boy. However, because Stein had secured the rights from Pajitnov directly and not from the Russian authorities, the USSR's Ministry of Software and Hardware Export stated that the console rights to Tetris had been licensed to nobody, and that Atari Games had only been licensed the rights to produce arcade games with the property. In April 1989, Tengen, who had previously filed an anti-trust suit against Nintendo, sued Nintendo again claiming rights to distribute Tetris on the NES, and Nintendo counter-sued citing infringement of trademark. In June 1989, a month after the release of Tengen's Tetris, U.S. District Court Judge Fern Smith issued an injunction barring Tengen from further distributing the game, and further ordered all existing copies of the game be destroyed. As a result, 268,000 Tetris cartridges were recalled and destroyed after only four weeks on shelves.

The art which was featured on the Tengen cover was an airbrush painting by well known illustrator Marc Ericksen featuring St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow, and featuring at its base a falling stone concept that mirrored the gameplay. Atari made use of the same art when advertising the new release, as seen in the Atari inset above right, adding a fireworks motif that was not a part of the original art.

In an interview, Ed Logg notes that the Tengen version of Tetris was built completely from scratch, using no source code or material from the original game. After presenting the title at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Tengen president Randy Broweleit requested improvements in the game. Originally portrayed solely in black and white, Broweleit requested that the pieces be portrayed in color, and Logg altered the game accordingly prior to the next Consumer Electronics Show. When asked which version of Tetris he liked the most, Logg stated the Nintendo version of Tetris for the NES "wasn't tuned right", citing a lack of logarithmic speed adjustment as the source of that version's overly steep increases in difficulty.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The graphics and visuals are great and colorful, by 1988 standards,
 * 2) The cover art for both versions is very good.
 * 3) Well-composed soundtrack by Brad Fuller.
 * 1) Well-composed soundtrack by Brad Fuller.
 * 1) Well-composed soundtrack by Brad Fuller.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) As mentioned above, the NES version was unlicensed by Nintendo, it was recalled and destroyed all remaining copies, however, Nintendo produced its own version for the NES and Game Boy, but both versions aren't good as this version, because they lack a few basic things, such as their NES version lacks the 2-player mode. (Though it later re-released on the SNES which added)