The New Tetris

The New Tetris
North American box art
Developer(s)H2O Entertainment
Blue Planet Software
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Artist(s)Christopher Bretz, Roland Longpre, Jon McBain, Jake Pokorney
Composer(s)Neil Voss
SeriesTetris
Platform(s)Nintendo 64
Release
  • NA: August 2, 1999[1]
  • PAL: October 15, 1999
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The New Tetris is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo 64. The game was developed by H2O Entertainment and published by Nintendo, based on the Tetris series. The game was originally released on August 2, 1999, in North America.

The game shows scenic fly-bys of structures (for examples the Sphinx, the Pantheon, Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Mayan temple, and others) rendered in real-time. This is relatively difficult for the Nintendo 64 hardware to accomplish at the quality that is achieved. The New Tetris features a multiplayer mode with up to four players and an electronic dance music soundtrack by Neil Voss, who also composed the award-winning music for Tetrisphere.

  1. ^ "Entertainment News Wire for August 2, 1999 [Renaissance Online Magazine News]". renaissancemag.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.