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Tetris
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Name: Tetris Developer: Atari Games Year: 1988 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Tetris Pinout Settings: Tetris Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Tetris DescriptionA puzzle game where seven different types of blocks continuously fall from above and you must arrange them to make horizontal rows of bricks. Completing any row causes those blocks to disappear and the rest above move downwards completing four rows at once is called a Tetris. The blocks above gradually fall faster and the game is over when the screen fills up and blocks can no longer fall from the top.Tetris was produced by Atari Games in 1988. Atari Games released 88 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Tetris was produced include Cyberball, Vindicators, Toobin', Vindicators Part II, Assault, Xybots, A.P.B., Atari R.B.I. Baseball, Blasteroids, and RBI Baseball. Tetris - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.45 (7 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsIf you tap the "rotate" buttons when the guy in the doorway is doing his "victory dance" a hook will reach out from the side and drag him away by the neck. If you do it when he is just dropping down to do the "Cossack Kicks", he'll dodge the hook the first time, but get caught by it on the return!Game IntroductionYou must arrange bricks to form rows without the 'wall' getting too high, or it's game over. You can rotate bricks so that they fit into the wall and once a row is complete it will disappear, thus lowering the wall. Eliminated rows will lower the number of lines you need to complete a level. Bricks fall faster in the higher levels and sometimes there are already bricks in the field that block your path. Often, when you try to make a Tetris four rows of lines that are removed at once, you end up waiting a long time for the long red brick the only way of completing a Tetris. It is interesting to note that every brick is made up of exactly four blocks.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tetris CensusThere are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 407 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 146 of these machines are owned by our active Tetris collectors. And of these, 26 are original dedicated machines, 29 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 91 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Tetris machine for sale. There are 5 active VAPS members with extra Tetris circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Popular - There are 16 active VAPS members currently looking for Tetris. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Tetris board sets. This game ranks a 82 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe game uses a 6502 microprocessor and two Atari Pokey sound chips. Game settings and the top six high scores are saved in EEROM Electrically Erasable ROM. The game only uses font-mapped graphics there are no sprite graphics.TriviaThe original designer is a Russian programmer called Alexey Pazhitnov, which is why the artwork has Russian buildings and dancers.Gilman Louie was the first one to license Tetris from its developers in the Soviet Union. Manuals
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