Tetris

released on May 01, 1989
by Tengen

An expanded game of Vs. Tetris

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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Unless you're huge into the competitive scene this is obviously a better game than the Nintendo published version on this hardware. It's uncomplicated, simple, early style Tetris. My mom likes it so it's good ^.^

A great Tetris game and the best on the NES. 2 Player action and a better soundtrack than the official release.

Honestly there's more here than Nintendo's own variant of Tetris on the same system, and this game is probably the best Tetris game on the system overall imo. The game plays well, controls well, and has a solid amount of modes and content to play, including a very fun co-op mode where two players share the same large board. Shame that this is unlicensed and as such very hard to get physically.