User:Demonin/TGM links

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All of the links I have related to TGM, partially ordered.

My links

Old Japanese TGM personal pages/forums/bulletin boards:

Ipepapi’s Tetris Information Page

  • Contains detailed TA/TAP rankings
  • Contains logs of the “Tetris Monkeys” bulletin board from 02/1999 to 03/2002 (with incomplete archives of the chat up to 10/2005)
  • Contains incomplete archives of additional TGM and TAP chats from 02/2001 to 10/2002
  • Contains Ipepapi’s personal TGM diary from 02/1999 to 10/2001 (with incomplete archives of the diary up to 09/2004)
  • Contains very in-depth TGM guides
  • Contains links to other Tetris pages

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331192519/http://www.horae.dti.ne.jp/~tgm/scorebbs_n/scorebbs.html (old link, archived from 12/2000 to 10/2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070618214745/http://homepage3.nifty.com/tgm/ (new link after site moved to Nifty, archived from 02/2003 to 02/2007)

J.O’s Tetris Course

  • Contains J.O’s bulletin board (with complete logs from 06/2002 to 12/2006, incomplete archives from 06/2001 to 06/2002 and from 12/2006 to 02/2010)
  • Contains TGM rankings from 01/2004 onwards
  • Contains J.O’s personal TGM diary from 02/2001 to 12/2009
  • Contains TGM guides

https://web.archive.org/web/20010419193355/http://www.inv.co.jp:80/~uson/index.html (old link, archived from 04/2001 to 06/2001)
http://www13.plala.or.jp/TETRiS_TGM/ (new link, archived from 11/2004 to 08/2020)
https://web.archive.org/web/20010616172418/http://www66.tcup.com/6609/waldner.html (old bulletin board link) JIN’s page / “TETRiS-HOLiC”

  • Old homepage is lost
  • Contains Ti rankings from 07/2005
  • Contains JIN’s bulletin board (incomplete archives from 03/2002 to 12/2004 and from 03/2006 to 07/2015)

http://homepage2.nifty.com/jintonic/ (old link, doesn’t work, homepage2.nifty.com is excluded from the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060218133402/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~tetris_holic/ (new link, archived from 02/2006 to 12/2016)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060703192838/http://tetris-holic.at.webry.info:80/ (blog from 05/2006 to 06/2009, incomplete archive)

T-KJU’s “Travel of T.A.P”

  • Contains T-KJU’s bulletin board (with incomplete archives from 06/2001 to 12/2005)
  • Contains TGM guides and research
  • Contains T-KYU’s personal diary from 10/2000 to 02/2003 (incomplete archives)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011214083530/http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Oak/8244/tat.html (link 1, archived from 04/2001 to 11/2007 with some dates redirecting to link 2)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030119055938/http://www.kju.ne.nu/ (link 2, archived from 01/2003 to 11/2006)

ZON’s ZONWEB

  • Contains ZON’s bulletin board (with incomplete archives from 04/2000 to 05/2002)
  • Contains ZON’s personal diary from 11/1999 to 01/2001

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331192519/http://www.horae.dti.ne.jp/~tgm/scorebbs_n/scorebbs.html

RYU’s “SHIN-RYU PARTY”

  • Contains RYU’s bulletin board (with incomplete archives from 04/1999 to 12/2004)
  • Contains RYU’s personal TGM diary from 10/2001 to 05/2004

https://web.archive.org/web/19991104081200/http://www.geocities.co.jp:80/Playtown-Spade/2136/index.htm (old link, archived from 11/1999 to 01/2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20020526123319/http://tetris.omosiro.com/ (new link, archived on 05/2002)

GOO’s TGM Intelligence Agency

  • Was originally the download page for GTET from 10/1999 to 08/2000
  • Contains GOO’s bulletin board (with incomplete archives from 12/1999 to 12/2004)
  • Contains TGM guides

https://web.archive.org/web/19991005170004/http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/4825/

Maomaonu's HI-SCORE Online !

  • Contains TGM and TAP record information from 03/2001 to 10/2002

https://web.archive.org/web/20010214231037/http://www.mao.nu/hi-score.html

2chan TGM threads from 10/2000 to 05/2008
https://web.archive.org/web/20181007025836/http://www.geocities.jp/tgm_2ch/log/

Other pages
https://web.archive.org/web/20010618012526/http://home3.highway.ne.jp/anko/ - HIRO! Rooms, another personal page with a diary
https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161359/http://web.iis.to/tetris_tgm/ - KAN A.K.A. hifvbiber’s TI considerations and course page with a diary
https://web.archive.org/web/20021208075151/http://abomination.jp/diary/ - Another diary by SQR, lasts from 2002 to 2014, lots of intermittent TGM talk

Unsorted stuff
https://imgur.com/a/tetris-grand-master-usa-manual-K3tqW6l TGM1 manual
https://web.archive.org/web/20200704030512/http://www.arika.co.jp/special/sp_interview/inter_tap/inter_tap02_en.html Mihara interview about TGM1 development
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/1302689791300603944 Early TGM1 time record history 1999-2003
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/938294213412552725 777 TGM1 PB history 1999-2010
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/638268298189996043 tetrisconcept.net various PB progressions 2007/2010
https://x.com/ItsFantasticAC/status/1352294587906338816 apparent first ever TGM1 GM
https://ameblo.jp/koorogiyousyoku/entry-12171777787.html SEMIPRO screenshots
https://web.archive.org/web/20050123181853fw_/http://www.ishimoto.niigata.niigata.jp:80/~kawabe/game/tetris.html secret grade
https://abomination.jp/OGA/bloxeed/introduction_en.shtml Bloxeed info (and segatet/flash point)
https://archive.org/details/gamest0031 April 1989 Gamest magazine with section about segatet
http://archive.org/details/gameoverhowninte00shef - “Game Over” - talks about the Tetris licensing issues
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/does-g-tet-even-exist.3876/ GTET forum thread
https://archive.org/details/gamest0031 Gamest April 1989, includes Segatet (and general tetris) strategy guide
https://archive.org/details/gamest0041 Gamest February 1990 - page 48 talks about Segatet winning the 1989 grand prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr8Cz9UnPg 1998 NOV TGM1 GM 10:07
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/705376050775064617 Mihara on TGM-K
https://web.archive.org/web/20220802204050/http://mihara.sub.jp/top/blog/sb203/mihara.cgi?month=200909 Various Mihara blog posts during the 2009 TGM4 demo
https://web.archive.org/web/20090913125927/http://am-show.sega.jp/jamma09/t_tgm.shtml 2009 demo screenshots/info
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Yt411q7yE/ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Wt411q7Lu/ Gottsu Tetris episodes (205 and 206, 17/11/96 and 24/11/96)
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/938280380522438656 Jago first western GM 12 November 2003 (email to colour_thief)
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/1270271522921254985 TGM4 images
https://web.archive.org/web/20030418230904/http://sylph.fuis.fukui-u.ac.jp/triosoft/texmaster_version5/index.html and https://web.archive.org/web/20040413223025/http://triosoft.xrea.jp:80/wip/2004-03.html TeXmaster (テフマスター) info
https://web.archive.org/web/20031207230619/http://www.hosiken.com/software/windows/heboris2001/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20011029133503/http://www.hosiken.afis.to:80/index2.htm Heboris info
https://web.archive.org/web/20220319235645/https://game2.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/game/1038152112/ Heboris thread (25/11/02)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220319222858/https://game2.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/game/1066793646/ Heboris part 2 (22/10/03)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070111130755/http://game10.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gameama/1122198262/ Heboris part 3 (not archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070111130805/http://game10.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gameama/1140535035/ Heboris part 4 (not archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070206104710/http://game10.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gameama/1149952728/ Heboris part 5 (not archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070107162103/http://game10.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gameama/1162260516/ Heboris part 7 (not archived)


Kevin’s links

TGM Speedlore Episode 1 - From the Zinc Forums to the earliest days of TC

First forum thread related to TGM, talking about horrible emulation lag
07/04
http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=1059&Number=9577#Post9577

LOst, Jago, CT, sh8 post their first records
Kapat shows up in this thread, amazingly
Lots of discussion even in 10/05 about how fucked it is that we need to buy PCBs or import 360s
Amnesia shows up as “Tetris Master niv.1”, still in school in 01/06.
http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6922&page=1

“GM Class Player census” by Jago
Notable players: Jago 10:27.93 in 05/05, Colour_thief 12:56.98 06/05, Sh8 12:52.61 06/05
http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=836&Number=6669#Post6669

MARP Scores, many of which are from the Zinc forum era
MFM appears here, tjhk922,
http://replay.marpirc.net/index.cgi?mode=frames_search&short=^tgmj$&table=y&per_game=1000&tourn=0&maxlines=9999

Scores from some Polish leaderboard
http://emux.esero.net/automaty_hra_romset_tgmj,game:Tetris_The_Grand_Master_MAME_emulator,GMode:1,GEMVersion:ALL,GTour:arcade

November 2005: Tetrisconcept forum opens after the site started in May 2005
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/new-forum-open.621/

Caffeine (!)
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/another-new-arika-video-tgm3.1066/

Kitaru’s links

Keep archiving Mihara’s blogs using WAIL

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.

THQ Tetris DS
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/

https://delistedgames.com/tetris-playstation-3/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220729230126/https://www.usgamer.net/articles/puyo-puyo-tetris-coming-to-switch-and-ps4-in-april-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8f4FFyqiw - DICE Summit

http://gewaltig.net/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=1&t=707~-1 - Mihara pays to keep Cultris I server running, in line with what may be his opinion that innovative fan games are OK but straight clones are not

http://www.greatergoodradio.com/?p=59
find Edge 74 August 1999 issue with Henk Rogers interview?

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.
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/20030612213830fw_/http://arika.co.jp/product/tap/inter_tap_01.htm - Japanese TAP interview

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

http://harddrop.com/article/article_492/
https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/03/18/hawaii-based-tetris-online-lays-off.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20130512190558/http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/01/12/inside-tetris-battle-facebooks-top-multiplayer-arcade-game/

https://old.computerra.ru/1998/267/194410/ – Russian article on the tragedy of Vladimir Pokhilko. Holds viewpoint slightly counter to that of American reporting; less cut-and-dry, puts some focus on mental health

Desiree Golden’s Mino defense blog - https://web.archive.org/web/20211016124341/https://desiree47.wordpress.com/
Legal opinion on TTC v XIO - https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/new-jersey/njdce/3:2009cv06115/235418/61/0.pdf?ts=1411565672

determine provenance of Nintendo Tetris staff
http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/tetris-gb
http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-2271935
http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-1727669/tetris-ds-internally-developed
http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/tetris-dr-mario

Stratus’ Links

Mihara’s Blog: http://mihara.sub.jp/top/blog/sb203/
ARIKA Interviews: https://www.arika.co.jp/special/sp_interview/inter_tap/inter_tap01_en.html
https://www.arika.co.jp/special/sp_interview/inter_tap/inter_tap01.html (Japanese Original)
First western death gm post on an esports forum: https://tl.net/forum/general/67189-first-western-player-gets-tetris-grandmaster-rank
Kevin DDR’s Speedlore: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qMC4r6np5Tm6q2PHJ9WvOulJPeN7NRDKiM1he8R0mzc/edit
2005 GM Census
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=836&Number=6669
THE ARIKA Promo Exam Video:
https://youtu.be/H_tmFUWu9bI
Japanese Tetris Finals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3njXyMaPSE
First TGM1 GM
https://twitter.com/ItsFantasticAC/status/1352294587906338816
ZON = Oosone
https://twitter.com/hifvbiber/status/1352631085746688004
2008 TGM Census
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/2008-tgm-census.543/
2009 TGM Census
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/2009-tgm-census.1495/
2010/2011 TGM Census
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/2010-2011-census.1887/
TGM4 Announcement Thread
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/tgm4-announced-w-cancelled-w-revived.1383/
Stratus’s Colour_Thief Interview
https://youtu.be/3PbRaiWtA1U
Stratus’s Kitaru Interview
https://youtu.be/xf4N4MJDypY?si=yf3lcUSgB-6UGJef
Amusement Show Bulletin Board Recap
http://web.archive.org/web/20091124064103/http://www.am-j.co.jp/column/47amshow/data03.html
The End of Clone-ibition
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/the-end-of-prohibition.1652/#post-40279
TGM 2ch Leaderboards
https://web.archive.org/web/20121109002725/http://www.geocities.jp/tgm_2ch/
Mihara Hates Clones
[blog]
Mihara’s View on Clones & Heoris
https://discord.com/channels/609656780745736193/701754607889678396/714744223596937307
TGM Series List
https://synt4x.org/tgm/
Kevin & Steve GM
https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/ti-master.572/page-25#post-46022
Steve Regret
https://discord.com/channels/161762212090871808/353060757547778048/944025384909934632

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