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Tetris
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. The photos are of the exact item you'll receive — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. 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
Leave one column open, hold your nerve and wait for the long bar. That single gamble is the heart of Tetris on the NES, and it has kept players hunched over this cartridge for more than three decades. Alexey Pajitnov's falling-block idea was already a sensation on the Game Boy, but Nintendo's home version, released in North America in November 1989, became the way most families played it on a television, and eventually the foundation for an entire competitive scene.
Two modes keep it clean. A-Type is the marathon: pick a starting level, clear lines and survive as the pieces speed up every ten lines. B-Type hands you a board already cluttered with garbage blocks, at a height you choose, and asks you to clear 25 lines. A preview window shows the next piece, a statistics column tallies every tetromino you have been dealt, and the scoring makes the strategy plain the moment you see it: clearing four lines at once, a Tetris, is worth far more than picking off singles, so greedy stacking is rewarded and punished in equal measure. The soundtrack leans on classical pieces, including an arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and a big A-Type score earns a rocket launch in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral, scaled to how well you played.
What nobody expected in 1989 was that this exact game would become a sport. The Classic Tetris World Championship has been played on NES Tetris since 2010, and a new generation of players has rewritten what seemed possible, inventing faster ways to move pieces and blowing past level 29, the top speed once called the kill screen. In December 2023 a 13-year-old known as Blue Scuti played until the game itself crashed, a moment celebrated around the world as the first time anyone had beaten NES Tetris.
Nintendo's cartridge also came out of a famous legal fight. Atari's Tengen label had released its own NES Tetris, and Nintendo's win over the home-console rights pulled that version from shelves, leaving this one as the Tetris most NES owners grew up with. It is single-player and famously unforgiving, with no hold queue or hard drop like modern Tetris games, which is exactly why a great run on it means so much. This is the version the champions still play, on the hardware it was made for.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Tengen
- Genre
- Puzzle
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
Tengen, an Atari label, released an unlicensed version of Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After they lost a lawsuit to Nintendo, which acquired the rights from Russia to port the game to home consoles (they already had the handheld consoles rights), Tengen had to destroy every spare cartridge unsold at the time. The Tengen game featured a two-player simultaneous mode not available in Nintendo's version
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