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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: The ~Real~ Tetris
Keywords: mirrorsoft?
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Date: 21 Sep 90 16:25:03 GMT
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In <20437@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, maffett@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Maffett) writes:
>In article <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.
>
>   MirrorSoft == Spectrum Holobyte.
>They are both owned by Sir Robert Maxwell (captian bob), 
>ie. Maxwell Communications.
>
>These are the people (maxwell) that screwed the russian inventor out
>of most of his royalties (they say hes received ~800 american dollars so far).

They may be the same company (I don't know), but the two versions of Tetris are
FAR from being the same. The MirrorSoft one is a LOT better.

-larry

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