Tetris vs. Dr. Mario: The NES Puzzle War Nintendo Picked Against Itself
By October 1990, NES owners shopping for a puzzle game had exactly two choices, and Nintendo had made both of them. Tetris landed on the
By October 1990, NES owners shopping for a puzzle game had exactly two choices, and Nintendo had made both of them. Tetris landed on the
You rented Tetris the summer everyone rented Tetris. The video store’s copy was gone by Friday afternoon, so you drove to the mom-and-pop shop two
Stephan Scoggins packed a Game Boy for Operation Desert Storm the same way half of America did in 1990: as a way to kill downtime.
Nintendo of America had a plan for what would ship inside every Game Boy box in the summer of 1989, and it wasn’t a puzzle