| Daten |
| Veröffentlichung |
17. Mai 1989 |
| Vertrieb |
Tengen, Inc.
1623 Buckeye Dr
Milpitas, CA 95035 |
| Programmierung |
Ed Logg
Kelly Turner
Norm Avellar |
| Grafik |
Kris Moser |
| Audio |
Brad Fuller |
| UPC-Code |
031763041122 |
| Genre |
Arcade / Puzzle |
| Medium |
Steckmodul |
| Steuerung |
D-Pad |
| Spieler |
1–2 |
| Wertung |
★★★★★ |
| Boxtext |
It's a battle of wits in this Soviet mind game!
From the land that has produced the greatest chess minds comes a very different mind game. Developed by two Soviet programmers, TETRIS is the first computer game to breach the Iron Curtain. It now stands before you, not as a test of crude brawn, but as an intense battle of wits.
TETRIS is a dynamic puzzle that seems easy enough: Rotate and flip moving geometric blocks into unbroken rows. When you completely fill up the bottom row, it disappears from the screen and your score rises. When enough rows vanish, the blocks descend faster and faster. Nothing to it, right? Wrong! When you can't find the way to make the pieces fit together and more blocks tumble down to clog your screen, you'll wish you had ten hands – and ten brains.
Warning: Although TETRIS may be great food for thought, it's so much fun, it's positively addictive. So don't forget to eat something to fuel your body (maybe apple pie?). TETRIS and apple pie. Now that's détente!
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| Trivia |
Nintendo und Atari Games entwickelten nahezu zeitgleich Tetris-Versionen für das NES, jede Firma im Glauben, die richtige Lizenz zu besitzen. Die Atari Games/Tengen-Version wird oft als die qualitativ bessere Version angesehen. Näheres kann dazu in der Firmengeschichte 1988 nachgelesen werden.
Alternativtitel: TETЯIS – The Soviet Mind Game. Der kyrillische Buchstabe Я ist allerdings falsch und wird nur zu typografischen Zwecken eingesetzt, er wird eigentlich ya ausgesprochen. Der Originaltitel des Spiels im Russischen wird Тетрис geschrieben. |
| Original-Arcadespiel |
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▶ Tetris (Atari Games, 1989)
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