The Story of Tetris
Posted by marshall Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:48:00 GMT
I came across this history of Tetris recently, and it's quite interesting. What a crazy mess of licensing. I didn't know that there were two versions of Tetris for the Nintendo; I only knew about the version by Nintendo itself. It turns out that Tengen -- a division of Atari Games -- created a version as well, but was forced to remove it from the market because the rights to Tetris that were sold to Tengen weren't legitimate.
I like the Tengen version a lot better (you can find it for emulators at ClassicGaming); it's much closer to the Atari arcade version, which was always my favorite.
