Faces ...tris III (DOS)

Faces ...tris III

Platform: DOS Year: 1990 Developer: Sphere, Inc.

Faces ...tris III is a puzzle game created by Alexey Pajitnov, the same person who made Tetris. The game was also released for the Commodore Amiga and Macintosh. The game contains 10 levels, each with a certain theme to them (music, monsters, scientists, historical figures, etc.) The main objective of the game is to match up facial pieces to make up a person's complete face.

Screenshots

The title screen. The game configuration menu. Playing the first level. The high scores.

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Music

Like Super Tetris (DOS) and Wordtris (DOS), the game contains twelve non-looping songs. Ed Bogas used Super Studio Session to compose the music. It is unknown what Peter and Kuswara used.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Programmer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Title Screen	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:39		Download
102	Level 0 (Generic)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:26		Download
103	Level 1 (Figures)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:29		Download
104	Level 2 (Art)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:52		Download
105	Level 3 (Scientis)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:54		Download
106	Level 4 (Musician)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:40		Download
107	Level 5 (History)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:39		Download
108	Level 6 (Literary)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:31		Download
109	Level 7 (Monsters)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:33		Download
110	Level 8 (Inthisto)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:39		Download
111	Level 9 (Holidays)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:26		Download
112	High Scores (Victory)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:10		Download

#	Title	Composer	Programmer	Length	Listen	Download
201	Title Screen	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:41		Download
202	Level 0 (Generic)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:27		Download
203	Level 1 (Figures)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:38		Download
204	Level 2 (Art)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:36		Download
205	Level 3 (Scientis)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	1:06		Download
206	Level 4 (Musician)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:48		Download
207	Level 5 (History)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:47		Download
208	Level 6 (Literary)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:31		Download
209	Level 7 (Monsters)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:34		Download
210	Level 8 (Inthisto)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:52		Download
211	Level 9 (Holidays)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:29		Download
212	High Scores (Victory)	Ed Bogas, Peter Ward	Kuswara Pranawahadi	0:10		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Doommaster1994
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Game Credits:
  • Sound: Ed Bogas
  • Sound: Peter Ward
  • Sound: Kuswara Pranawahadi

(Source)

This is the only game that Kuswara is credited for anything audio related, so he is assumed as the programmer, as the rest of his video game credits involve him programming. Peter Ward and Kuswara aren't credited in the Amiga version which has the same music, only Ed Bogas. This could mean that Ed Bogas composed all the songs and Peter only served as a music producer, or possibly as an arranger for the music to play properly on the MS-DOS soundcards and sound devices.

Game Rip

Format	Conversion	Download
		Download (Info)

The game contains two versions of each song, one with a .MUS extension and the other with a .SNG extension, each located in the root install folder. AdLib uses the *.MUS files in MUS (AdLib) format, Tandy uses *.SNG files. However SNG format is not identified and seems to have no header. There is an instrument bank file in SND (AdLib) format, FACES.SND, used for the AdLib music. These same music formats are used in Tetris Gold, but not in Super Tetris or Wordtris.

The VGM files were logged in ValleyBell's version of DOSBox 0.74 and trimmed to play properly.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source)

Only the Tandy 3 Voice can play music and sound effects.

Releases

World Title: Faces ...tris III Platform: DOS Released: 1990-??-?? Publisher: Spectrum HoloByte

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/faces - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/564825-facestris-iii - GameFAQs.