Tetris

released on Dec 22, 1988

A port of Tetris

Tetris for Famicom is a port of the Japanese home computer version. Originally published under an incorrect licence, the game led to Henk Rogers's purchase of the Tetris licence on multiple platforms, which later led directly to further Nintendo releases. It is infamous for its control scheme, which mapped down to rotate, and A to hard drop, the opposite of most later versions which have down for drop and A for rotate. On October 1st, 2018 the game was re-released as part of the AtGames Legends Flashback. It has an updated copyright screen and remapped controls (up/B for rotate, down/A/C for hard drop). On November 1st, 2019, it was re-released on the updated Legends Flashback, Legends Ultimate Arcade, and the Adventure Flashback Blast!.


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fascinating version of Tetris for the controls alone. the down button rotates the pieces while the A button hard drops them, there's no soft drop at all in this version so you really have to pay attention to make sure you don't drop your Tetrominos in the wrong spot while may be annoying for some people, I think it adds a neat way to strategize as well as forcing you to pay attention to what's going on. after you get used to the controls it's actually a pretty easy version of Tetris, you have a set of Lines to clear and everytime you do so you get a score tally for a breather then when the gameplay begins again everything is cleared, at least until the later levels where they drop some blocks you have to clear but it's not that much. on top of that Level 0 is very slow and the later levels aren't as fast as you'd expect them to be so I'd recommend just starting with the max Level if you're already familiar with Tetris, yeah the speed's that slow. cool version, not sure if I'll be visiting it again often but it was a neat experience.

shoutouts to Technotris and its weird buzzing in the background, has some good remixes as well

Solid rendition of Tetris, though the controls are a bit weird and the game is a bit easy. You use down to rotate the blocks and A to hard drop only, no soft dropping. It absolutely takes some getting used to if you've played any other tetris game, but once its down the game is tetris as always. The blocks don't really fall that fast even at the highest speed, and the random piece RNG isn't too punishing, so it is a pretty easy clear for any tetris expert as long as you get used to the controls. That being said, I can't give this a super high rec when there's Tengen and Nintendo tetris on the exact same system.