sixteen-bit
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Impressive numbers.
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Tetris has been purchased (yes, purchased) 425 million times on mobile
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Well, for one, Flash sucks. Although, I'd rather play a freeware standalone fangame, like Nullpomino. These days they probably have better rules than the official games.
Also, it'd be nice to have good portable Tetris without resorting to homebrew.
jackissocool
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So best selling game ever by an enormous margin?
Yeah, who pays for Tetris?!
Well, apart from the half-a-billion people in the OP, anyway
RadarScope1
Member
Even if it's actually a quarter of that number, that's still 100 million+ idiots who bought a twitch puzzle game that has no buttons. It boggles my mind how people can buy these classic games designed around buttons in their touch phones. Makes zero sense to me.
Diprosalic
Banned
Tetris on a touch screen just seems so wrong.
KojiKnight
Member
Holy crap I haven't even THOUGHT of tetris in years... that's crazy.
The sad thing about all that is that the Tengen version of the game was superior to the crap Nintendo put out in every way. It was an arcade perfect translation.
I have the Tengen NES cart and its still my favorite version of Tetris. It only cost me a quarter on wheel game on the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
Depends on a number of things.
Whatever money he has made anyway, it wasn't until 96 that he actually got the rights to the game. Before then it was the property of the Russian/Soviet government.
SeventhSon
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GoATetris
Triggerhappytel
Member
I've just had a look and it seems that Tetris Holdings LLC owns the rights to the series (presumably they licence it out to EA). Can't seem to find out what (if any) position Pajitnov holds within the company though.
EDIT - according to Wikipedia he's the co-owner. He must have hundreds of millions of dollars from the game by now. I wonder if he's lived off it ever since the Game Boy days.
Not every game is a tetris tournament! Sometimes we just want to kill time at the train, dmv, post office, or whatever area we're stuck in.
As I mentioned in my previous post, he never had the rights to the game back then. It was the property of the Soviet government. Communism.
"Mobile" probably includes the feature phone releases. Tetris was really one of the few playable games on those old things.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Tetris will be like chess, card games, etc.
Eternal
Yeah this is likely true. A bunch of people even had the Tetris demo preinstalled on their phones pre-smartphone age and probably bought it from there
Eternal
Yeah this is likely true. A bunch of people even had the Tetris demo preinstalled on their phones pre-smartphone age and probably bought it from there
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Tetris never stops being fun, no matter how many times I play it.
Canis lupus
Member
And it doesn't come close to how popular it was when it first came out. I never heard of seen anyone playing Tetris Mobile.
There were billions of these and other clones around
There were billions of these and other clones around
ColtraineGF
Member
425 million is super cool - Tetris is definitely one of the pillars of the puzzle game franchise.
It should be noted that this figure includes ALL mobile releases of Tetris, including stuff pre-iPhone:
It should be noted that this figure includes ALL mobile releases of Tetris, including stuff pre-iPhone:
Doctor Ninja
Sphincter Speaker
Not surprising since it's a simple game works fine with touch controls, I know many hate the iOS/Androird version of it but I never had issues playing on my phone from time to time.
Holy shit I had those when I was a kid !
And it probably doesn't come close to how popular it was when it first came out. I never heard of seen anyone playing Tetris Mobile.
There were probably billions of these and other clones around
Holy shit I had those when I was a kid !
Holy shit nostalgia brick!And it probably doesn't come close to how popular it was when it first came out. I never heard of seen anyone playing Tetris Mobile.
There were probably billions of these and other clones around
Well, it doesn't take a whole lot of processing power. I guess that was part of the genius of the game.
It is simple technically (even when it first came out} which means any piece of hardware can play it, but even more important, it is simple in terms of gameplay which means any person can play it,
Brilliantly simple and extremely addictive.
Goldrusher
Member
We even have a Tetris game show here in Flanders.
It's been on the air for over 20 years (over 4000 episodes) and counting, and the show has a market share of 45%!
The game:
- 1 host, 2 contestants
- host asks a question, and the first to correctly answer gets a couple blocks
- this rewards you with points, but the main goal is to use the blocks to clear lines in the game (and if you're ahead, to make it harder for the other player)
- there's also a solo round, in which both contestants play by themselves, and have to answer the same 5 questions
- in this round, you're given a theme/hint about the question beforehand; and you pick the order of the questions yourself
- the first question, if answered correctly, gives you 1 block
- up to 5 blocks for the 5th question
(eg. a question about a movie you know, you give 5 blocks; about a sport you know nothing about, 1 block)
- finally, there's a similar round with both players
- a hint is given before each question, the first to react and to give a good answer gets points/blocks, a wrong answer and you lose points
- the winner has to play a final round
- the goal is to find an 8 letter word, in 120 seconds
- you're given a subtle hint, and placing blocks rewards you with letters of the word to help you even more
- clearing a line rewards you with 1000 each time
- win this round and you're playing in the next episode as well
- winning 3 episodes rewards you with an additional prize
- the record is 11 episodes
It's been on the air for over 20 years (over 4000 episodes) and counting, and the show has a market share of 45%!
The game:
- 1 host, 2 contestants
- host asks a question, and the first to correctly answer gets a couple blocks
- this rewards you with points, but the main goal is to use the blocks to clear lines in the game (and if you're ahead, to make it harder for the other player)
- there's also a solo round, in which both contestants play by themselves, and have to answer the same 5 questions
- in this round, you're given a theme/hint about the question beforehand; and you pick the order of the questions yourself
- the first question, if answered correctly, gives you 1 block
- up to 5 blocks for the 5th question
(eg. a question about a movie you know, you give 5 blocks; about a sport you know nothing about, 1 block)
- finally, there's a similar round with both players
- a hint is given before each question, the first to react and to give a good answer gets points/blocks, a wrong answer and you lose points
- the winner has to play a final round
- the goal is to find an 8 letter word, in 120 seconds
- you're given a subtle hint, and placing blocks rewards you with letters of the word to help you even more
- clearing a line rewards you with 1000 each time
- win this round and you're playing in the next episode as well
- winning 3 episodes rewards you with an additional prize
- the record is 11 episodes
Amazeballs
Member
What about the transaction fees?
TheSlySoul
Member
It should be more of a mystery when Tetris does not sell. Everyone loves Tetris. Your mom loves Tetris. Even your dog loves Tetris.
Naked Snake
Member
dat install base
The wonders of perfect gameplay!
Something that Bomberman also shares.
dat skill based.
