Tetris

Le jeu

Tetris (styled TETЯIS) is a puzzle game developed by Atari Games and originally released for arcades in 1988. Based on Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris, Atari Games' version features the same gameplay as the computer editions of the game, as players must stack differently shaped falling blocks to form and eliminate horizontal lines from the playing field. The game features several difficulty levels and two-player simultaneous play. As a result, the Tengen game was only on the shelf for four weeks before Atari was legally required to recall the game and destroy any remaining inventory of its NES version. With fewer than 100, 000 copies known to exist, the Tengen release has since become a collector's item, due to its short time on the market. By the time of court order demanding Tengen cease distribution of the game and destroy all remaining copies, roughly 100, 000 copies of the game had been sold, and it has since become a collector's item. However, in another article, they noted that if it were not for the hype surrounding the game during the lawsuit, Tengen's Tetris would have more likely than not been forgotten.