Looking for this Tetris game fer years! CA$H for the one who finds it

[Critter]

i guess we keep digging

i asked my friend and he is 1000% sure now and says BLOCKOUT 3D is on the compilation. any other versions of this compilation anyone can dig up? just to be sure before we move on?

ps: T_hairy_bootson
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[Akira]

Originally posted by Critter

i asked my friend and he is 1000% sure now and says BLOCKOUT 3D is on the compilation.

That compilaton has blockout. Can we move on? We found out your friend is full of it.

[Critter]

blockout 3d ! i not screwin with you

just make sure first.. coz he might be right otherwise i will crack him in the head too since he thinks he knows it all

[Akira]

Blockout IS 3D for fuck's sake. Stop wasting me time with your super l33t fr13nd who knows shit all.

Yes, this is a harsh reply, but if I tell you it has the game, it's because I have tried the fucking lame compact.

[Critter]

:eek

im sorry i was just trying to help you nail the bastard down. good luck with the hunt

[Akira]

Sorry for being rude, I apologize. It's your friend who gets on my nerves. I hate these braggers who say they know it all, but they know squat.

[mess]

Hi Akira try to see this link are it this game ?


http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,24/gameId,1630/

seems it's only are for Commdore 64

game name The Soviet Challenge

[Akira]

No, I am looking for an AMIGA game. I wouldn't be posting here otherwise.

Thanks though.

[andreas]

Originally posted by mess
Hi Akira try to see this link are it this game ?
seems it's only are for Commdore 64

game name The Soviet Challenge

Tetris - The Soviet Challenge also exists on the Amiga. According to my knowledge, the original of the game was available in the US only.

[Akira]

Anyway, can we move on? This is not the game

[Duke]

Not your game, but you can add it to the list of wrong games.

[Akira]

Ok, I will update the list and probably recycle this thread a bit so info is easier to see..

[mr_0rga5m]

I dont think 'Coloris' has been mentioned has it ? ( HOL )

[Akira]

No it wasn't, probably because it doesnt look at all lke Atari Tetris.

I will add this one to the list as well, when I update it

And I'm quite sure it is not Super Tetris, but as it's not mentioned on the 'IS NOT' list...
http://hol.abime.net/?id=2221

[DrBong]

Originally posted by andreas
Tetris - The Soviet Challenge also exists on the Amiga. According to my knowledge, the original of the game was available in the US only.

Also released in Australia. However, in Europe, Infogrames released it as Tetris just to confuse matters I got my copy from Germany and only realised recently it was the same as Tetris: SC when the WHD installer was released.

@Akira
Whilst you're at it, you might as well put Super Twintris on the NOT list.

[andreas]

Cool. You might want to fix this in the HOL entry, better: provide some scans for the European version!

Because this is commonly (not to say quaintly) referred as 'Amiga Tetris', I've now included the term (hidden) in the database, so that people looking for that don't get trapped...
(Left that publisher bit to you though )

Final Tetris by TCB

Didn't notice if this one was mentioned yet.

Only problem is the date, 1992. Otherwise it looks similar in-game.

Find it on the "Connection Megademo" disk in TOSEC.

Good luck.

[cebulba]

hello.

just for info...I don't know this game for AMIGA but...

I found an advertisement of the ATARI version your pics showing:
ATARI Tetris Advertisment Scan

when taking a closer look at the text you can read the publisher as being: Andromeda software

Those guys also release "The Soviet Challenge" (mentioned several times in this thread).

Information on the ARCADE version can be found:
here

maybe you can ask one of the ATARI community if this game has been released for ATARI ST or ATARI XL computers. Same company would have released it for AMIGA - if a full price product.

check:The ATARI museum - the ATARI game can also be found here...

greetings from Germany.
Olli K.

[Bloodwych]

What about this Final Tetris posted by KnucklesD Akira? It looks very similar to what you were after.

At least post a quick NO CA$H FOR J00! if it isn't the one.

[Akira]

HM!!!!!!!!!!!

It might be man, not sure. Got to think about the ages but 1992 is near it. Ill have to try it out!!!!!!!! I think my 1988 assumption was wrng, cant remember the exact date of the show but I still think it preceded 1992 but so far this is the closest shot ever and I have high hopes for it.

Will keep you guys posted, and if it is, ca$$$$h for j00 KnucklesD!!!

[Akira]

Ok checked it out with my friend and we're still keeping our cash

This games looks closer to the original Atari Tetris arcade than the Amiga game we're looking for. Some more data that might help narrowing it down.

*The looks of the game we look for are exact or almost exact to those of Atari Tetris.

*The game is not part of a demo, it's a standalone game

*The scrolling down of the tetris blocks is smooth, like in SNES's Tetris Bombliss. The demopart posted by KnucklesD hops from position to position, just like the arcade game. The game we look for one-upped the arcade game in that respect.

*The music was more uptempo than the original arcade tetris music. It had no vocal samples, but it had a more " techy"/electronic feel to it.

*It was featured in an argentinian TV show dedicated mostly to the amiga. They had compos for it so there's a slight chance this is an argentinian developed game (far fetched, but I'm beginning to think so!)

Here's still hoping to get a video of the program where we saw the game. It's hard to find television archive material that old over here because a couple of video archives caught fire a bunch of years ago, so shitloads of things got lost.


Here's a list of games that ARE NOT what I'm looking for:

- Mirrorsoft's Tetris
- Tetren (PD, post 1990)
- Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris (but I heard there are two versions of this, one very rare)
- Twintris/Super Twintris
- Tetris / "Amiga Tetris" (Infogrames)
- Amiga Tetris 2
- Tetris Pro / "Cigar tetris" (2000 A.D.)
- Duotris
- Zaxk
- Super Tetris
- Tetrix
- Ditris
- Tetris Metallica
- Tetris III
- Super Caztri
- ProTris v1.0 (1993)(Mirage)
- Project T
- Coloris
- Final Tetris (megademo part)
- Avatris
- Digital Tetris
- Tetris (Gary Wheatly)
- Tetris +
- Tetris the Next Generation
- The Last Tetris
- Tetrys 95 (1995)(Crayon X)(AGA)(Fr)
- Power Tetris

Cheers to all who contributed!

[Akira]

Edited the list of games that ARE NOT thanks to the many contributions to the thread.

Edited the description above to include this list.

[Galaxy]

Since there seems to be an awful lot of interest in tetris games, I've uploaded a 2 disk compilation of (PD) tetris games that I made over a decade ago to the Zone.

Included are: Obsess-o-matic 1.0; Quattro; AHextris; T90; Welltrix; Tetrix; Tertis; Super Twintris; DTris; Legotris; Tritris

From memory each disk autoboots.

Have fun people...

[Akira]

I'll be checking these out to add names to the NOT MY GAME!! list

[Haakon]

I know this probably will not help you a singel bit, but I am pretty sure (60%) that i have seen this game before. Infact, after reading your now 3 page long quest, i took down my old a500 from the attic and checked all my disks. But unfortunately i did not find what i was looking for.

Why do I think we are talking about the same game: Because I have never tried the real version (arcademachine), and a couple of monts back i was fiddling with MAME, and when playing the version you describes on first page and i recalled it as the same game i had for the amgia.

I was pretty active around 1989-1990, so the date almost match. I may remembering totaly wrong here but: I recall the game without any crack intros, or just maybe an simpel boot intro. Then a "long" period with totally black screen, and then the screen of the tower on page 1, but with different colours. More like a "real" picture. And not the grey bricks around. But the playfield was exactly the same as the picture, and they had the man coming out of the doors (when completing levels?)

I think i played it just a couple of times...

Was disk-swapping a lot (...yes, i know..shame on me...) with only norwegians and swedes (maybe some finns), so the game must have been up here in the north, and probably is not only an Argentinian game.

I recall it as a mediocre game, so the distribution of it is probably limited. But I would have added Scandianavia to my global area-search list...

[Akira]

Originally Posted by Haakon

and then the screen of the tower on page 1, but with different colours. More like a "real" picture. And not the grey bricks around. But the playfield was exactly the same as the picture, and they had the man coming out of the doors (when completing levels?)

YEah! That soudns -EXACTLY- like my game! The little man was present indeed!!!!

I have two disks:

The first is Amiga Tetris V 1.1

The other is a compilation called Tetris Mania and has the following titles:

Tetrix Metallica
Blockout
Tetris II
Tetris
Quattro
Tetrix
Yatc
Tetris IV

I think none of this is the right one, but in case someone need to test I'll put them at The Zone.

Akira, the next thing I'll do is contacting an old friend tha has or had a big, really big collection.

[Akira]

Tetris Mania has ben checked already, these names should be in the NOT list, if not, I'll add them.

I think looking in some argentinian guy's disk collection would be more productive, this shit is definitely NOT TOSEC'ed otherwise it would have surfaced already. Also there's a very slight chance that the game has been produced in Argentina, since it surprises me that NO ONE has been able to land even near close to a clue about the game (except haakon)

Originally Posted by Akira

I think looking in some argentinian guy's disk collection would be more productive

You're welcome to have a look in my collection

Akira, I think at a certain point in a man's life he has to realise that sometimes to win is to know when to give up. No doubt if ever you find this "mythical" disk your will be dissapointed by the game as it won't be quite as good/cool as you remembered. Besides, I think after all this time you have as much chance of finding this as Riki/his sister/the bad guy from Riki-Oh/The Story Of Riki has of winning an Oscar for best acting.

Phew, only another 2317 posts to read.....

[Akira]

Originally Posted by Jim

Akira, I think at a certain point in a man's life he has to realise that sometimes to win is to know when to give up.

The game exists and I will not cease until finding it It doesn't matter if it ends up not being as good as I remember it, I will still feel cool with me for finding it after so many years of looking for it!

I got a good lead now, contacted the guy that made teh TV program where I saw it. He might have a tape of it so maybe I can peruse a screenshot!

Meanwhile, I added another game to the NOT list.

[andreas]

If you find it, it will appear

THAT BIG

in the HOL news. I promise

[Duke]

Probably not the one you're searching for, but at least its another one for the its-not-list

[Akira]

Bumping my poor old request

[Marcuz]

Originally Posted by Akira

The game exists and I will not cease until finding it It doesn't matter if it ends up not being as good as I remember it, I will still feel cool with me for finding it after so many years of looking for it!

it is with heartfelt commotion and sad disposition that we at Moskow Institute for Mind Feebled annonce the departure of long time member Akira. The poor sod was found in his cell crushed by huge colored bricks that fell out from a plane cargo registered to the LEGO company that was bringin materials for the new LEGO park soon to be opened next to the Rodina swamps. the inexplicable cheering smug on the corpse face has convinced the direction of the hospital in performing an autopsy on the body that giving the little budget of the institution for hospital' instrumentation will be kind of rough, provided that the rusted cutlass not will remain stuck on the sternum.
the direction of the LEGO park has generously conceded the burying of the salm next on a LEGO statue picturing the american piano player Liberace.
the function is scheduled in a couple of week, if the weather is clement.

[Akira]

BAhahahaha!!!

weeeeeeelll onto my request. Where's my game!!!!

[Smiley]

THIS GAME IS A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION

[Akira]

You are wrong. For fuck's sake, I REALLY need a tape of that old computer program!!!!!!! That will PROVE this game's existance.

[Smiley]

Me thinks Akira is telling the truth :P

lots of laughs :-()

[mr_0rga5m]

Originally Posted by Akira

You are wrong. For fuck's sake, I REALLY need a tape of that old computer program!!!!!!! That will PROVE this game's existance.

What old computer program? .. You checked they havnt got it for dl on archive.org ?