Tetris (NES) Playthrough, Tengen version - NintendoComplete
351A playthrough of Tengen's 1989 puzzle game for the NES, Tetris.
Played a single player game, beginning on level 0 and ending on level 13 with a final total of 559 lines.
Tengen's NES port of the arcade version of Tetris was actually the first NES Tetris game to show up in the US, released about six months before Nintendo's own version. Unfortunately, about a month after it went up for sale, Nintendo landed the console rights for Tetris and quickly put the kibosh on Tengen's game.
I say unfortunately because, though Nintendo's Tetris (https://youtu.be/E6vjqZbkshY ) was an excellent game, it was not as fully-featured as Tengen's.
This one features splitscreen two-player versus play, as well as the novel inclusion of cooperative play (with another human or CPU player) on an extra-wide playing field. And while it's missing cutscenes of Nintendo's game, it does feature a cool little dance party scene between each round.
Otherwise, it's the same Tetris that we all know and love, just with a giant footprint in the middle of its head from where Nintendo curb stomped it to make way for their own.
I mean, I get that business is business, but what a douche move.
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