Classic Game Replay: NES

[NowhereMan]

Alright, alright, alright, aright, alright!!!!!! I have played a few games from the list, also added Tengan's Tetris because I accidentally played that before Nintendo's version. Tengen is/was a subdivision (or something) of Atari. Atari got sued by Nintendo multiple times for their game, having to take their version off the shelves, allowing for Nintendo to put their version up. On the Wikipedia page of the NES version, it is often stated that Nintendo's version is inferior of the Tengen version, this is something I disagree with for multiple reasons. Playing Tengen, it DOES have 2-player modes, which Nintendo's does not, but even when I play 1-player, it is still in a split-screen box, so if you want to master Tetris on your own (maybe the Game Boy version is best), the Nintendo version's layout is much better, looks more modern, feels more modern, more polished and better music. The Tengen version does have a CPU cooperative mode, but it isnt something to master, I would rather just play 1-player, just me. The Nintendo version is perfect for that.




It's no secret that Tetris was created in Russia. Conceptualized by Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s, inspired by pentomino tiling puzzles. Tetris is definitely not an NES exclusive (have played the Game Boy version many times), spanning across 70 platforms and 220 versions. Tetris is still a BRAND of its own today, a lot of the newer games (for PC), like over $20 and more! (Not sure if that is worth my buying price of a new Tetris game, also the reason I haven't played any of them). The Nintendo DS version (speaking of Nintendo) is something I have never played but it seems to be the one I would probably cherish the most as a Tetris game. Tetris 99, a free downloadable game for the Nintendo Switch released in 2019 as an online multiplayer game against 99 players! Sounds fun. 

Anyways, we are speaking of the NES version. The music is a great, popular Russian classics; "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and the overture from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.

There is no 2-player game, which should have been added, Tetris 2 has 2-player, but it is not normal/classic Tetris. 
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Don't really need to talk about anything else. It is just basic Tetris. But Nintendo's Tetris is my favorite on the console, beating out Tengen and Tetris 2. It is not my favorite Tetris game, but I would be willing to pay for a physical copy of this game. Nintendo, or not, Tetris as its own game (not console game) is considered one of the greatest videogames of all-time, also an enormous cultural legacy. 

My rating for the NES Nintendo version: 6/10