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While Tetris well over 35 years old, arguably the most significant version of the game hits that milestone today.
The Game Boy version of Tetris – which was subject to a heated rights battle (recently turned into a movie by Apple) and effectively helped the handheld become a million-selling commercial success – launched in Japan on June 14th, 1989.
A stand-alone release in the territory, it would become a pack-in title for the North American and European releases, a fact which not only helped boost sales of the handheld but also turned Tetris into one of the best-selling games of all time.
As of 2009, it had sold 35 million physical copies and will have sold many more since then via digital services, such as the 3DS Virtual Console.
While Henk Rogers' Bullet Proof Software is mentioned on the game's startup screen, the Game Boy version of Tetris was actually developed in-house, with Satoru Okada directing, Gunpei Yokoi producing and Hirofumi Matsuoka handling design. Hirokazu Tanaka was in charge of the music. Bullet Proof Software was the rights holder for the game.
Tetris continues to be a popular title with modern audiences, with titles like Tetris Effect and Tetris 99 gaining rave reviews – but the Game Boy version will always have a special place in our hearts.
Did you grow up with the Game Boy version of Tetris? (88 votes)
- Yes
- No
- No, but I love it anyway
- What's Tetris?0%
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I refuse to believe that there are people who don't even know who Tetris are.
Street musicians play the bloody theme https://youtu.be/Nor09lJ80zE?t=235
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcbfoyeGRI&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBmZAg8HxfY&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ah9_cw7MS4&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZCLIOaQUM&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1
lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRBexwBhCs&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
Anyway !
I played the GB and Nes version of the game.
None of the others really.
Grew up with the Gameboy version, but absolutely nothing can beat Tetris Effect Connected to me!
History tells Tetris was (part of) the reason adults bought GameBoys for themselves. I agree, because I absolutely hated Tetris as a kid - and any puzzle, to be honest. All I wanted was RPG's and platforming.
As I grew older, I got hooked on the genre. 🧩
Sadly neither I or my friends had a Game Boy, so I grew up with the version of Tetris that came in NES pirate carts (I believe it's by Atari?). The lack of two-player mode in the official version was disappointing, to be honest.
For me this is THE greatest version of it. And if i could get a version for playstation or xbox that was basically this one i would buy it.
@iacobus_magnus Probably Tengen Tetris, with the dancers in the intermissions? I found their version to be really chintzy with the 4x1 piece so I stopped playing it, lol.
Hundreds of hours put into the Game Boy and Nintendo-produced version for the NES, though.
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