“Think anti-trust.” Nintendo permitted Tengen to publish games on NES. The two entities co-existed until 1988, when Tetris tore them apart for good. Soviet researchers Alexey Pajitnov and ...

I miss these versions - just as it would have been a serious coup to include the legendary Tengen take on Tetris - but there's more than enough other stuff. There's the version of Tetris for the ...

and Elorg granted them exclusive rights to publish Tetris on handheld systems and consoles. (As a result, Sega and Tengen had to destroy the remaining copies of their respective console versions.) ...

“When Henk came back with video game rights, not only [does Tengen] not have rights to Tetris, they also got fucked that way.” In a film that’s already overloaded with the intricacies of ...

Tetяis: The Soviet Mind Game is a tetromino game for NES published by Tengen, the home video game ... graphical style were lifted from the arcade Tetris by Atari Games. This Game Pak is rare ...

The most memorable mishandling of the Tetris license took place in America, where publisher Tengen (Atari's console division) released a version of Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The rights reverted to Pajitnov, and in the meantime Rogers and Nintendo fended off a variety of lawsuits — including one with Tengen and another that made Tetris games on keychains — and ...

Nintendo first published Tetris as the pack-in title for the Game Boy in 1988. However, in 1989, Tengen, AKA Atari Games, made a Tetris game for the NES that was not authorized by Nintendo.

Remember the Atari Tetris arcade game, which later found a release on the NES under the Tengen label? That game was actually preferred over Nintendo's "official" version, mainly because it came ...

Brad Fuller, composer of classic gaming tunes such as the Marble Madness and Tengen Tetris soundtracks, died on Saturday, January 3 after a long battle with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.