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From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Commercial Tetris
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Date: 4 Mar 89 00:45:19 GMT
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In article <15643@oberon.USC.EDU> whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen) writes:
>In article <21229@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> steph@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
>>Has anyone seen the arcade version of Tetris? We have one here at UCLA. I
>>guess this is a first, a game that started on PCs going to the arcades instead
>>of the other way.
>
>Actually, Lode Runner became an arcade game after a similarly popular
>home version made the rounds...

    Actually, the first game to go from a home system to the arcades this way
was Broderbund's Choplifter!, that Sega released a while back.

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  Mark VanWinkle
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