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Tetris

Sega Mega Drive cart. published 35 years ago by SEGA Enterprises, Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Tetris screenshot

Tetris © 1989 Sega Enterprises, Limited.

A Tetris version for the Sega Mega Drive. It has two modes for single-player or simultaneous two-player play, and one cooperative two-player mode.

Normal: A standard marathon mode.
Time Trial: The game time is limited to 3 minutes. Otherwise, the mode plays the same as Normal.
Doubles: A cooperative two-player mode on a single playfield.

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TRIVIA

SEGA produced this Mega Drive conversion of their hit arcade version in anticipation of being able to win the rights to the home versions from Nintendo in court. The game was scheduled to be released on 15 April 1989. The game had been manufactured and was ready to ship, but SEGA did not end up winning the legal battle, and they were unable to be sold. The cartridges were left to rot in a warehouse and, ultimately, were presumably destroyed. A handful of copies have, however, found their way into the open market. Less than 10 copies are known to exist.

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SCORING
The game's scoring is not based on the arcade version. Instead, it uses the following formula
Score = Level × 3 + (Lowest row + Manual drop rows) × 2 + Line clear bonus.
STAFF

Programed by: Naoki Okabe

SOURCES

Game's ROM.