The new Tetris announcement makes me wonder what the legal situation on stuff like Tengen’s NES Tetris (the best Tetris on the NES) is. Because it's one of those games where the developers thought they had the license for Tetris, but actually didn't (if I recall correctly, Tengen got the okay from Mirrorsoft, who got it from a guy who misinterpreted something Pajitnov said). With that game in particular, it's also interesting to think about who owns the license— since Atari, and as a consequence, and Tengen don't really exist anymore, at least not in the way they used to.
It's also funny how this collection is supposed to be all about Tetris’ history, but only includes official games, when most of Tetris’ early success comes from legally weird games like Tengen Tetris. It's like if IBM made a documentary about the history of home computers, where they never mentioned PC compatibles.

































