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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Commercial Tetris
Message-ID: <2025@pur-phy>
Date: 3 Mar 89 17:36:30 GMT
References: <21229@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
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Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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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. Does this mean I can put my MacII outside and charge 
>money? :-)

I think both Choplifter and Loderunner have been made ito arcade games.
David's Midnight Magic may have been turned into a pinball game, or 
vice versa (the latter seems more likely; i.e., that DMM was a ripoff
of an existing machine)

To go back to the stone age of computing, Moonlander was written by
Dave Ahl while at DEC for some DEC thingy or another, but I'm sure
that if you go back that far, there are a couple more examples.  And
it wasn't commercial.

-Sho