This unlicensed NES version of Tetris, developed by Atari Games, was released in May 1989. It was recalled a month later due to a counterclaim by Nintendo over the rights to distribute Tetris.
- Id: 1168
- Platforms: NES
- Abbreviation: tengtet
- Display Name: Tengen Tetris
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Game Groups:
- Puzzle
- Unlicensed game
Publications
Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. Even the theme music has a similar feel to the more familiar NES Tetris game by Nintendo.
This movie plays through just the final level, level 17, and clocks in at over one line per second. Notably, luck manipulation does not work the same way in this game as in other versions of Tetris, leading to quite different strategies.
Spikestuff improves the predecessor movie by 00:05.54 seconds.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. One difference, however, is a Cooperative mode that allows two players to play on the same board simultaneously. The board is 12 tiles wide in this mode, rather than the usual 10 tiles.
In this run, the author controls both players and completes just the final level, level 17, as quickly as possible.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game Versions
View| Type | Name | Title Override | Region | Version | Platform | Hashes |
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| Good | Tetris (Tengen) [!] | U | NES |
SHA1: 34113A102CCFFF6A859F8EBB66C24260D43EC7AB MD5: 1BCB1795A0FEED766D6D0681196662FB |
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| Bad | Tetris (Tengen) [o1].nes | U | NES |
SHA1: 171c2ce38c8fbb24c28bc434a46b254daf4618d1 MD5: 2fa94d24cb8f8cf038efd4a8c7902e90 |