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Tetris
- $18.99
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Item Condition
Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Seven shapes, one well and a tempo that quietly takes your composure apart. Tetris on the Game Boy is the version that turned Alexey Pajitnov's Soviet-era puzzle into a worldwide obsession, and it is hard to name a cartridge that did more for a piece of hardware. Packed in with the Game Boy at its 1989 launch, it put falling blocks in the hands of commuters, parents and kids alike, and it went on to sell tens of millions of copies.
The decision to bundle it is gaming legend. Henk Rogers, who helped secure the handheld rights, argued to Nintendo of America's Minoru Arakawa that Mario would sell the Game Boy to young boys, but Tetris would sell it to everyone. He was right. The game itself is as pure as design gets: A-Type is an endless climb through faster and faster levels in pursuit of a high score, while B-Type asks you to clear 25 lines, optionally starting on a board already cluttered with junk. Big A-Type scores are rewarded with rocket launches that became a small piece of shared playground mythology.
Hirokazu Tanaka's soundtrack is just as famous as the gameplay. Music A is the Russian folk song Korobeiniki, the melody most people simply call the Tetris theme, alongside a jaunty original for Music B and a chiptune take on Bach for Music C. Plug in a link cable and the two-player mode becomes one of the best head-to-head games on the system, with every multi-line clear sending rows of garbage up your opponent's well.
This is the original monochrome Game Boy Tetris, the one that defined the handheld and the puzzle genre at the same time, and the first cartridge many people ever owned.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2024
- Publisher
- ModRetro
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
Tetris for the Chromatic (an FPGA based Game Boy Color handheld) is a game released on December 1, 2024. It is a Game Boy and Game Boy Color game that is bundled with the Mod Retro Chromatic. The game features modern and retro game settings, as well as the standard modes: marathon, sprint, ultra, and endless. Players can customize various options, including toggling the ghost piece, selecting from two speed curves, toggling the hold function, and choosing between the bag or random pieces. Players can input a 9-digit seed to determine piece sequences, or leave it unset for a random seed every game. Most mechanics follow standard guideline rules. Both IRS (Initial Rotation System) and IHS (Initial Hold System) are present. However, pieces are rotated on the first frame rather than entering pre-rotated, which means they cannot prevent a block out.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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