Wordtris (DOS)

Wordtris

Platform: DOS Year: 1991 Developer: Spectrum HoloByte Buy: Amazon

For other games in the series, see Tetris.

Wordtris is a puzzle game based on the popular puzzle game Tetris. The player must line up words horizontally or vertically to spell words. Instead of level numbers, the levels are represented in letters. The game stops at Level J and keeps going until the player loses. Every time the level changes, there is a different background image with a Russian theme and a short music number.

Screenshots

The title screen. The copy protection. Viewing the main menu. Playing Level A.

Music

The game claims the music is Russian-style and it is. Ed Bogas provided 12 musical tracks. Unfortunately, the music does not loop. Ed wrote MIDI files in Super Studio Session which were then converted to the sound engine, suspected to be Ad Lib Visual Composer.

Recording

The AdLib recording starts with a 1, the MT-32 recording starts with a 2, and the Tandy 3 Voice recording starts with a 3.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
101	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:40		Download
102	Level A	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
103	Level B	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
104	Level C	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:30		Download
105	Level D	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:21		Download
106	Level E	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
107	Level F	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:18		Download
108	Level G	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
109	Level H	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:27		Download
110	Level I	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:31		Download
111	Level J	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
112	High Scores	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
201	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:46		Download
202	Level A	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:25		Download
203	Level B	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download
204	Level C	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:31		Download
205	Level D	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
206	Level E	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:22		Download
207	Level F	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:19		Download
208	Level G	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:30		Download
209	Level H	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
210	Level I	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:33		Download
211	Level J	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:16		Download
212	High Scores	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Ed Bogas	0:26		Download

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
301	Title Screen	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:48		Download
302	Level A	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:23		Download
303	Level B	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download
304	Level C	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
305	Level D	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
306	Level E	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:20		Download
307	Level F	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:18		Download
308	Level G	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:29		Download
309	Level H	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
310	Level I	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
311	Level J	Ed Bogas	Ed Bogas	0:14		Download
312	High Scores	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Ed Bogas	0:24		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Doommaster1994, binarymaster
• Recorder: Doommaster1994, binarymaster
• Game Credits:
  • Music: Ed Bogas
  • Sound: Don Harlow
  • Sound: Paul Mogg
  • Not Credited Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

(Source)

Don Harlow is credited for sound, but is also credited in Super Tetris (DOS) for sound programming. Therefore, he has been listed as the programmer.

Game Rip

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This rip contains AdLib instrument bank file that is installed in the root game folder, original compressed resource files, uncompressed music (AdLib, Roland MT-32, Tandy) and RAW sounds.

STUNS tool was used to decompress resources (PKWare compression).

Also the rip contains VGZ format recording and manually converted sounds in WAV format.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source) - The game lets you choose the devices at startup.

Releases

World Title: Wordtris Platform: DOS Released: 1991-09-19 Publisher: Spectrum HoloByte

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/wordtris- - MobyGames.