TetrisWiki:Projects/Sources

The following is a list of sources, and references that can be used to help find information and create citations. Please remember to archive links before adding them. If a link is dead, please search the archives (archive.org, archive.is, etc) and update it if it exists.

Sources

Wikipedia

Wikipedia should never be referenced directly, but it is a good place to look for references. The Wikipedia Video games project maintains sources and tools to find reference material that could be helpful to TetrisWiki.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Search_engine

While English Wikipedia has many sources, other languages such as Japanese and French also have their own content which differs https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris

Sega Retro wiki

The main Tetris page on Sega retro, as well as many other pages have useful information, physical scans, etc.

• https://segaretro.org/Tetris

Books

• Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children by David Sheff

References

The following is a list of references found by the community that can be used as citations, and creating new content.

History

• https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-part-1-calculators-and-cybernetics/ -- 8 part series
• https://www.wdic.org/w/MOE/%E3%83%86%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6 - "The incident" Sega vs Nintendo Japanese perspective

Tetris DS (THQ)

• http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9664
• http://library.corporate-ir.net/library/96/963/96376/items/156377/THQ_AnnualReport_FINAL.pdf
• http://tcrfwiki.tumblr.com/post/145420915583/prototype-release-thqs-unreleased-tetris-ds
• https://www.engadget.com/2007/02/20/tetris-evolution-coming-to-xbox-360/

Delisted games

• https://delistedgames.com/tetris-playstation-3/

Interviews

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8f4FFyqiw - DICE Summit
• http://www.greatergoodradio.com/?p=59
• https://archive.org/details/EDGE.N074.1999.08/page/n67/mode/2up (dead link)
  • http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/68/a-tetr.htm - reprint for Electron User Group # 68 (2007?)
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmjyq4/the-man-who-made-tetris
• https://shmuplations.com/tetris/ - Multiple interviews with Pajitnov and the devs of Tetris Battle Gaiden, dating from 1989 and 1993.
• https://www.logsoku.com/r/2ch.net/rarc/1231360670/#257 ← interesting story about 1988 Sega Tetris and ports to other hardware to meet production demand, some speculation about licensing in Japan, etc.
• https://venturebeat.com/games/why-the-perfect-game-is-still-with-us-decades-later-tetris-interview/ - Maya Rogers

TGM series

• http://www.geocities.jp/tgm_2ch/ ← the archive of tons of 2ch threads about TGM
• http://www.itmedia.co.jp/games/news/9905/28/news01.html ← TGM1 PSX cancellation news
• http://web.archive.org/web/20091124064103/http://www.am-j.co.jp/column/47amshow/data03.html ← TGM4’s performance relative to Dekaris at 47th Amusement Machine Show; only made top ten on day 3, whereas Dekaris made top three every single day
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070516071510/http://web.iis.to/tetris_tgm/cool_regret.html
• http://www10.plala.or.jp/code1484/TETRiS_EX/tetris_ex.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071114200854/http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Oak/8244/tap.html#so

Tetris (Sega)

• https://blog.goo.ne.jp/nazox2016/e/dface35f5ad69f75d86314978f8d12bd
• https://ameblo.jp/koorogiyousyoku/entry-12171777787.html
• http://segabits.com/blog/2017/02/26/sega-retrospective-sega-and-tetris/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050123181853fw_/http://www.ishimoto.niigata.niigata.jp:80/~kawabe/game/tetris.html
• http://kani.no.coocan.jp/tetris/tetris.htm
• https://twitter.com/suddendesu/status/1264179354310828033?s=21
• https://twitter.com/MegaDriveShock/status/1264256996594913292

Legal

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Spaera/comments/45k0nk/did_we_lose_the_game_just_to_preserve_bobnet/ -- on Spaera switching from polyomino tessellation to color matching
• https://desiree47.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/tetris-and-intellectual-property-rights-trademark/ -- Xio blog
• https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/113761/Exclusive_Tetris_Legal_Clone_War_Versus_Blockles.php

TTC

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160502121944/https://harddrop.com/article/article_492/
• https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/03/18/hawaii-based-tetris-online-lays-off.html

People

• https://news.microsoft.com/1996/10/23/alexey-pajitnov-creator-of-tetris-joins-microsoft-games-group/

Tetris Guideline

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/avp3u3/how_was_srs_designed/ehgxmh7/

CTWC

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/esports/2021/05/03/tetris-jonas-neubauer/
• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-revolution-in-classic-tetris

Unsorted

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130512190558/http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/01/12/inside-tetris-battle-facebooks-top-multiplayer-arcade-game/
• https://archive.org/details/Game_Over_1999_Cyberactive_Publishing
• http://atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.html
• http://atarihq.com/tsr/special/el/el.html
• http://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm
• http://atarihq.com/tsr/nwc.html
• https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/henk-rogers-the-dutch-godfather-of-japanese-rpgs
• http://pbshawaii.org/long-story-short-with-leslie-wilcox-henk-rogers/
• http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/interview/11267/tetris-from-the-top-an-interview-with-henk-rogers
• https://jp.ign.com/tetris-effect/30800/interview/vre35 - Henk says that fan games are not a big deal if there isn’t a lot of money involved, and that it’s like garage cover bands
• http://abednarz.net/tetris-company.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070209010739/http://www.abednarz.net:80/anonymous.html -- e-mails from an anonymous dev with Henk, regarding copyright etc.
• https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132518/the_man_who_won_tetris.php
• https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/06/feature_tetris_creator_alexey_pajitnov_on_tetris_99_tetris_comics_and_his_favourite_tetris_piece
• https://www.usgamer.net/articles/tetris-99s-biggest-fan-is-the-father-of-tetris-himself-alexey-pajitnov

• Domestic and Overseas Arcade Game List 1971-2005 (Japanese book with arcade release dates by month)