Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: The ~Real~ Tetris Keywords: mirrorsoft? Message-ID: <2001@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 19 Sep 90 01:44:09 GMT Lines: 41 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1990Sep19.035656.27716@uncecs.edu>, kms@uncecs.edu (Ken Steele) writes: >There was much discussion a while back about the >"real" Tetris (as distributed by Spectrum Holobyte) and >all of those other insidious Tetris clones that were >infringing on Spectrum Holobytes territory. > >A friend came by the other day to show me a copy of the >commercial tetris that he had. It was from MirrorSoft, >not Spectrum Holobyte. > >Question of the day: Was MirrorSoft distributing tetris >for the amiga in the US also? No.. the MirrorSoft version was never distributed in North America, probably because Spectrum Holobyte had the N.A. rights to the game. > Or was this originally >meant to be a European-only distribution? Who had the >first distribution rights for the amiga? Don't know what it was meant to be, or if it ever came out in Europe. >And in case you are wondering: Yes, his copy was pirated. >There is no way to tell where the original came from. No, >I didn't keep a copy. And it was inferior to Obsess-O-Matic. Inferior to Obsess-O-Matic? Well, I guess that depends a lot on whether you want to play Tetris, or if you want to play a Tetris-like game with all sorts of non-Tetris stuff in it. I'll say one thing... it beat the pants off the Spectrum Holobyte version. Too bad it never came out here. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+