Tetris (NES)

Tetris

Platform: NES Year: 1989 Developer: Nintendo R&D1 Buy: Amazon

This page is for the NES game developed by Nintendo, for other versions see Tetris.

Tetris is an action puzzle game where you must direct various odd-shaped blocks to the bottom of a well while attempting to line them up to form complete horizontal lines. When a complete horizontal line is formed, it is be removed from the well, and the more lines you can remove with a single block, the more points you score. As you progress through the game, the speed increases making it more difficult.

Despite being such a simple concept, few games have caused such cultural sensation which lasted decades. Two other versions of Tetris were released for the NES, the unlicensed port from Tengen, and the Japanese version developed by BPS.

Screenshots

Title screen. The main menu. The B-Type menu. About to get a Tetris in the A-Type game. Success! Finished a B-Type game.

Music

VGMPF Album Art

Hirokazu Tanaka put together some decent music for the Nintendo version of Tetris. Music 1 is an arranged version of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from "The Nutcracker Suite" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music 2 has a nice traditional Russian sound to it. Music 3 is a very mellow tune and the same song played when you were put on hold for calling Nintendo. The music played after a Game B victory is Toréador Song from the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. The Unknown track sounds like it was going to be introduction music, but it never gets played.

The audio engine used by the game was one used frequently by Hirokazu Tanaka, and was written in 6502 assembly.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Music 1	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Hirokazu Tanaka	1:59		Download
02	Music 1 - Fast	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Hirokazu Tanaka	1:04		Download
03	Music 2	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	1:19		Download
04	Music 2 - Fast	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:56		Download
05	Music 3	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:58		Download
06	Music 3 - Fast	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:42		Download
07	Success!	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:02		Download
08	Victory	Georges Bizet	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:35		Download
09	High Score	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	1:14		Download
10	Unknown	Hirokazu Tanaka	Hirokazu Tanaka	0:25		Download

Credits

• Ripper: myu2203
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Hirokazu Tanaka

(Source: Verification from composer. Game lacks credits)

Though the game does not have credits, Hirokazu Tanaka has taken credit for the music. In addition, composer Alexander Brandon, who is friends with Tanaka, has verified that Tanaka is the composer. Also, some of the sound effects were reused in Hello Kitty World (FC) which was composed by Tanaka.

Game Rip

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Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Releases

USA Title: Tetris Platform: NES Released: 1989-11-?? Publisher: Nintendo of America Inc.     Germany Title: Tetris Platform: NES Released: 1990-02-23 Publisher: Nintendo Co, Ltd.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/nes/tetris______ - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/nes/563470-tetris - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - Wikipedia.