FS: BANNED TENGEN TETRIS 8bit factory sealed game
Shannara
Tom Rockwell
Why was this game banned?
->Later.....Spice
Ronnie Deschenes
Tengen make Nintendo games that are fully functional. But, they do not
bother to request the Nintendo "Seal of Quality" When Ttris was released
by Nintendo followed suit by making a Tengen version, marginally cheaper.
Nintendo filed suit.
Tom Rockwell
(sp...@netacc.net) writes: > Why was this game banned?
>
> ->Later.....Spice
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Ronnie Deschenes
Visor
In article <339098...@netacc.net>, sp...@netacc.net wrote:
>Why was this game banned?
>
>->Later.....Spice
won, the Tengen version was banned. That's it basically, maybe someone else
has more specific info for you.
c64
> Why was this game banned?
>
> ->Later.....Spice
Two reasons:
1) Tengen did not license tetris properly: they ripped off Alexy Pajitnov
and the rest of the Russians who made it. Nintendo licensed the game
properly.
2) Tengen used a pirated copy of the NES lockout chip to get around the
NES's lockout system. Tengen made the chip by stealing the designs from
the US patent office (Note: It wasn't a break-and-enter theft: they
requested the designs for the chip under the guise of an impending lawsuit
against Nintendo. The lawsuit materialized a few years later, and during
the time in between the lawsuit and the theft, Tengen created pirate
chips.)
You can find out more about the whole "Tetris" thing in "Game Over" by
David Sheff. Very good book.
c64