While being extremely popular and highly rated, Nintendo using Tetris Attack as the American name for Panel de Pon was lamented by a co-founder of the Tetris Company for allowing Nintendo to have the license.
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Fun Fact: Japanese Name For Tetris 2
Tetris 2 was known in Japan as Tetris Flash.
Fun Fact: First Video Game Played in Space
A Russian cosmonaut brought the Nintendo Gameboy version of Tetris in space and played it, making it the first time a video game was played outside the Earth.
Fun Fact: The Cancelled Sega Genesis Version of Tetris
Tetris was supposed to be released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive back in the day. But die to licensing issues, it wasn’t. It did survive and was released in arcades.
(Not So) Fun Fact: When The Creator of Tetris Made Nothing Off His Video Game
Since Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris during the days of the Soviet Union, when the game finally got released in the West, he was actually making no money from it. Before he got the rights to Tetris back and founded the Tetris company, he said he was happy that people were playing his game and that…