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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Tetris, Nintendo is releasing some of the classic versions of the game onto Nintendo Switch Online. Playable starting today is the NES version of Tetris, which released back in 1989, alongside Tetris DX for the Game Boy Color. The announcement trailer even features the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, making the reveal himself. The original Game Boy release of Tetris was added to Nintendo Switch Online back when Game Boy titles were added to the service in February 2023.

 

[BlusterBong]

back when he made the ussr would not give him that since he made it on gov time. this is a good youtube video history of it by gaming historian

but that's the lame answer!, you gotta tie it to Nintendo becuase Super Mario is literally satan for abusing the easily abusable law to thier advantage even though the proper answer is to ignore them!

 

[stanleyopar2000]

This is the reason why this version was not in Tetris Forevt

 

[ciro64]

he should have read the fine print. ripoffdo will screw you over anyway they can including charging for this drip fed bullshit!

but that's the lame answer!, you gotta tie it to Nintendo becuase Super Mario is literally satan for abusing the easily abusable law to thier advantage even though the proper answer is to ignore them!

Now kiss

 

[Exnor]

Oh look, another meh addition to NSO.

 

[Lumstar]

This is the reason why this version was not in Tetris Forevt

Mario has a cameo appearance in the Game Boy version. Tetris Forever doesn't include any games that feature licensed characters.

 

[DJPlace]

tengen tetris is better then the Official Tetris. stuipid nintendo can't do anything right has of now. but i know it can't happen sadly...

 

[Desconocido90]

Nice. Tetris DX is part of my childhood.
I remember that in level 5 it used fuchsia as background color, a color so strident it could burn my retinas

 

[nWo]

It was cool seeing the creator and all, but c'mon, last 2024 month NSO update are two Tetris game? What the hell was that.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

thank god they keep adding more tetris, I was afraid we might get something we want like pokemon red/blue or something

Just a friendly reminder that the Virtual Console Pokemon games do not support save states/cloud saves, and that Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 (part of the NSO Expansion Pass) are unable to connect to Pokemon Home or other Pokemon games. Same thing with no cloud saves for the Switch Pokemon games. Very likely due to Nintendo/TPC/Game Freak not wanting to give players a "legal" means to duplicate Pokemon.

So be careful before you make that wish on the monkey's paw.

 

[Maximumbeans]

Nintendo on the 35th anniversary of its own franchise: …

Nintendo on Tetris: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I think Tetris is still the best video-game that was ever created, even after 40 years.
I've got at least five different versions of Tetris for my Gameboy, I think.

There are only 3 including Chromatic Tetris. 4 if you count Minuet Tetris but it's the same game.

 

[IC_]

There are only 3 including Chromatic Tetris. 4 if you count Minuet Tetris but it's the same game.

I meant the different variations of the game.
I've got the original in both the Japanese and localized version, Tetris DX, Tetris Blast, Tetris Plus, and maybe some other I forgot about.
It would definitely be nice to get my hands on the Minuet version someday. I've placed bids on two auctions for it in the past, but lost both times.

 

[impeeza]

Wasn't pajitnov never paid for Tetris or does he collect royalties now?

Never did. The royalties was for "the people" everything produced inside the USSR was "people's resources" so, the ninjas had to negotiate whit the government. The legend tells: Alexiv was pay with the permission to "go out" for conferences and showing cases

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Very likely due to Nintendo/TPC/Game Freak not wanting to give players a "legal" means to duplicate Pokemon

I never played pokèmon, what do you mean with "duplicate Pokèmon"?

 

[Maximumbeans]

I never played pokèmon, what do you mean with "duplicate Pokèmon"?

Making a copy of any given Pokemon. A lot of powerful Pokemon are officially only catchable once in a specific game (or select few games). Making duplicates lets people cheese trading by having way more copies to throw out than they normally would or build OP teams, stuff like that.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

I never played pokèmon, what do you mean with "duplicate Pokèmon"?

As Maximumbeans mentioned, "duplicating Pokemon" refers to the act of making exact copies of Pokemon you have, even those that can only legitimately be caught once per save file. Whenever you do a trade with another player online, it forces the game to save before it shows the trade animation. This is to ensure that even if you reset the game afterwards, it will still reflect the trade having occurred, so you won't get the Pokemon you traded away back unless you do another trade.

However, if one were to have a backup save file somewhere, they could, say, trade a Pokemon onto another copy/system, replace the first save with the backup, trade the same Pokemon to the other system again, and repeat as much as desired. This would lead to multiple duplicates of the same Pokemon (including even shiny legendaries) with the exact same details, right down to the OT, IDs, and various hidden identifying aspects. Which can then be thrown into Wonder Trades or onto the GTS and such to effectively "break" the trading economy by weakening the value of various rare Pokemon (especially shiny legendary/mythical Pokemon, since such Pokemon have been "locked" to never be shiny in more recent games to discourage save-scumming for shiny legendaries, making events the only way to get them without transferring from Gen 1-7 games). Cloud saves would easily make this kind of process much easier to utilize and more widely abused.

All that said, Nintendo wisely decided not to allow cloud saves for the Pokemon games, did not allow snapshot saves with the Pokemon VC games on 3DS (and are unlikely to change this for any VC-style re-releases on Switch/Switch 2 if they decide to do them), nor have they allowed Pokemon Stadium 1/2 to link with Pokemon Home or any other Pokemon game (so as to maintain cloud save compatibility for the N64 NSO software). So the only way to duplicate Pokemon is with modded consoles and/or 3rd-party tools, which violate Nintendo's EULAs and can get you banned from online play if you're caught using them.

 

[impeeza]

As Maximumbeans mentioned, "duplicating Pokemon" refers to the act of making exact copies of Pokemon you have, even those that can only legitimately be caught once per save file. Whenever you do a trade with another player online, it forces the game to save before it shows the trade animation. This is to ensure that even if you reset the game afterwards, it will still reflect the trade having occurred, so you won't get the Pokemon you traded away back unless you do another trade.

However, if one were to have a backup save file somewhere, they could, say, trade a Pokemon onto another copy/system, replace the first save with the backup, trade the same Pokemon to the other system again, and repeat as much as desired. This would lead to multiple duplicates of the same Pokemon (including even shiny legendaries) with the exact same details, right down to the OT, IDs, and various hidden identifying aspects. Which can then be thrown into Wonder Trades or onto the GTS and such to effectively "break" the trading economy by weakening the value of various rare Pokemon (especially shiny legendary/mythical Pokemon, since such Pokemon have been "locked" to never be shiny in more recent games to discourage save-scumming for shiny legendaries, making events the only way to get them without transferring from Gen 1-7 games). Cloud saves would easily make this kind of process much easier to utilize and more widely abused.

All that said, Nintendo wisely decided not to allow cloud saves for the Pokemon games, did not allow snapshot saves with the Pokemon VC games on 3DS (and are unlikely to change this for any VC-style re-releases on Switch/Switch 2 if they decide to do them), nor have they allowed Pokemon Stadium 1/2 to link with Pokemon Home or any other Pokemon game (so as to maintain cloud save compatibility for the N64 NSO software). So the only way to duplicate Pokemon is with modded consoles and/or 3rd-party tools, which violate Nintendo's EULAs and can get you banned from online play if you're caught using them.

In other words NFT

 

[ChronosNotashi]

Making a copy of any given Pokemon. A lot of powerful Pokemon are officially only catchable once in a specific game (or select few games). Making duplicates lets people cheese trading by having way more copies to throw out than they normally would or build OP teams, stuff like that.

As I mentioned, it could go even further than this, extending to duplicates of shiny Legendary/Mythical Pokemon, including those from events that are normally only redeemable once per game file/account. Which, if allowed to be duplicated legally, would greatly ruin the value of having such Pokemon, since Nintendo/TPC/Game Freak intended for those to be special from the start. Such as the recently-released Shiny Meloetta being a reward for completing all three Scarlet/Violet Pokedex in Pokemon HOME - a task that normally has no other reward besides the Shiny Charm (useless for hunting for shiny Legendaries, due to Legendaries more recently being locked to not spawn shiny when encountered during gameplay), or the Glimmering and Mark Charms for the Kitakami and Blueberry Pokedex respectively.

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In other words NFT

Sort of. Except unlike NFTs, only a select few people try to push for transactions that involve exchanging money for Pokemon (since RMTs for digital data outside of those authorized through the eShop, as you would expect, violate Nintendo's EULAs).

Instead, shiny Legendary/Mythical Pokemon are considered extremely rare normally (even in the older games that don't lock Legendaries encountered in-game to be non-Shiny - have fun reloading the same save file 1000+ times as you roll that 1/4096 chance of the Legendary you're aiming for being shiny), so only equally-rare Pokemon are tolerated as offers for non-reversible trades (read: trades that won't be undone later, as opposed to "touch trades" that are only allowed long enough for Pokedex progress before repeating the trade to return the Pokemon used). To put it simply, any trade that involves someone asking for a super-common Pokemon for a shiny Legendary, or a Wonder/Surprise trade that includes a shiny Legendary, very likely involve a shiny Legendary that was either duplicated or otherwise generated using unauthorized means.

(I should probably note here that by "shiny", I don't refer to Pokemon that have a shiny gleam or reflective surface (other than those that already have that to begin with), but are instead a different color than how that Pokemon usually appears. Example: Umbreon is usually black, yellow rings, and red eyes, but the "shiny" version is a slightly-lighter black with light-blue rings and yellow eyes.)