Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2

Arcade Video game published 24 years ago by Arika

Listed in MAME

Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 screenshot

Info

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TECHNICAL

Main CPU : SH-2 (@ 28.63635 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YMF278B (@ 28.63635 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Colors palette : 5120

Players : 2
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 3

TRIVIA

This game was released in December 2000 in Japan only.

If you enter the initials, they will be changed to 'ARK', which stands for Arika, the company that made the game :
'666'
'A '
'AA '
'AAA'
'AHO'
'ASS'
'AUM' (Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese new religious movement organization)
'DIE'
'ETA'
'FUC'
'FUK'
'HIV'
'IRA'
'KKK'
'OSI'
'PEE'
'PIS'
'PLO'
'SEX'

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Maintenance Code :
4-1-5-7-3 All Data Initialized.
4-1-7-6-5 Best Score Erased.

The following 4 are also tested for, but appear to be disabled :
1-3-5-7-9
0-2-4-6-8
4-1-3-7-3
5-0-2-1-3

SERIES

1) Tetris The Grand Master (1998)
2) Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 (2000)
3) Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 Plus (2000)
4) Tetris The Grand Master 3 - Terror-Instinct (2005)
5) Tetris The Grand Master 4 - The Masters of Round (2009)

STAFF

Sound Staff: Megaten, Rya
Background Design: Iwaroka, Matsumoto, Roki, Yamaguchi, Funato, Tanaka, Matsumura, Tanaoka, Dan, Ushiroda, Yamamoto, Tsuruha
Effect Design: Sakai
Programmer: Karasawa, Hashidate
Visual Design: Chiba
Director: Hashidate
Planner & Producer: Mihara

SOURCES

Game's ROM.
Game's screenshots.