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Unlicensed carts and a competitive mode distinguish Tetris (Tengen), the NES puzzle Tengen shipped under Atari Games' label. Two players can race the same well, a feature Nintendo's licensed cartridge did not treat as the point.
Tengen was forced to pull the cart from stores after the rights fight. Nintendo won the case in 1989, and its own licensed cartridge stayed on shelves while the Tengen boards were withdrawn.
The competitive mode and the unlicensed label are why this version is remembered separately. Pajitnov's falling pieces are the shared puzzle, and the lawsuit is this cart's own history.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.
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