9th April 2004, 5:36 PM
Yeah, Afterburner is a pretty fun mindless 3D shooter, and from what I understand, Tengen's version of Tetris had one major superiority over the Elorg version, it apparently had a VS mode. Tengen's version was ruled illegal (to make, not to own fortunatly), and reading about the legal battles, I fully agree with that decision. The person in charge of getting Tengen to make it was obviously a big scam artist. I don't want to say too much about the poor fellow, as he died under somewhat suspicious causes after a failed business deal a while later, but this particular thing was certainly a rotten deal. Still, the programmers who made Tengen Tetris certainly did a fine job from what I've read and were likely unaware of any legal issues. Actually, I saw a complete copy, box and all, at a local used game story. Certainly a tempting buy...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)