The New Tetris (N64)

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The New Tetris
The New Tetris - N64 - USA.jpg
Platform: Nintendo 64
Year: 1999
Developer: H2O Entertainment, Blue Planet Software

The New Tetris is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo 64. The game was developed by H2O Entertainment and published by Nintendo, based on the Tetris series. In this new version Tetris, from the same people that brought Tetris into the 3D sphere world, you can now play a 4 player game, and dump your cleared lines to another player using 'garbage'.

In the single player mode, the total lines cleared in every match that you play are added up, and once you reach a certain amount, a famous monument will be unlocked, and you can view them from all angles in full 3D. The process can be sped up by building four-by-four squares out of pieces, which will turn into silver (and for squares made of four of the same piece, golden) squares that grant bonus lines.

While the game received generally good reviews, the game became infamous for a huge hidden rant in the game's code by the game's programmer David Pridie, who sadly passed away shortly after the game's release from an asthma attack at 29. In the rant, Pridie goes after many of the developers and their design choices among other things.

Screenshots

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The title screen.

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Gameplay.
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Music

This game features an electronic dance music soundtrack by Neil Voss, who also composed the award-winning music for Tetrisphere. Voss also did remixes of Russian traditional music. The late programmer David Pridie (aka Martial Artist) hid rants, and out of all of the people he made bad remarks about, Voss was the one person he complimented, though he said that Voss got things done at the last minute:

While I am screaming.. I might as well say this: Niel Voss.. your music is freaking KICK A$$.. you are one really damn talented boy. BUT, you are one of the laziest music guys I think there is :) You could go far if you wanted to, but you just lack the GO for it. It is a shame. I wish you all the luck and would reccomend you to ANYBODY just because even though everything is last minute, and like pulling teeth, the end result is AMAZING.

However, Voss later explained why he delayed delivering the music in an interview:

I had left H2O and moved back to Florida, was producing this whole soundtrack remotely contract. The producer at Tetris Co was annoying and would ask me things like if I could 'sound like Enya' and other lame requests. I deliberately delayed giving them music as much as I could to hold off and wait out any reviews/feedback... Which led my friend Dave to be very stressed. he ranted about it and me being 'lazy'. I don't think he knew I was ghosting them to avoid getting feedback. I handed them a lot of tracks very near the end and Dave basically named most all the songs. I had no idea what the levels were really aside some vague descriptions I got in email from the producer.

Voss composed the game's music in Fasttracker II, and used samples from many records he owned at the time. Voss still owns the XM files, but has not released them yet.

Neil also explained that the song titles come from David, not himself.

Recording

These recordings were made using foobar2000 with exporting to OGG (Vorbis) format.

# Title ComposerArranger Length Listen Download
01 Title TraditionalNeil Voss 2:25
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02 Morocco Neil VossNeil Voss 4:19
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03 Dvie TraditionalNeil Voss 2:31
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04 Polyasia Neil VossNeil Voss 2:57
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05 Floppy Neil VossNeil Voss 2:48
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06 Pyramid Neil VossNeil Voss 2:37
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07 Giali Neil VossNeil Voss 4:05
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08 Thread6 Neil VossNeil Voss 2:43
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09 Haluci Neil VossNeil Voss 3:01
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10 Mayan Neil VossNeil Voss 4:15
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11 Greek Neil VossNeil Voss 3:04
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12 Egypt Neil VossNeil Voss 3:25
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13 Celtic Neil VossNeil Voss 3:18
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14 Africa Neil VossNeil Voss 4:03
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15 Japan Neil VossNeil Voss 2:27
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16 Kalinka TraditionalNeil Voss 3:17
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Credits

  • Ripper: zoopd2
  • Recorder: IgoreshaZhu
  • Game Credits:
    • Music and Sound Effects: Neil Voss credited as Neil D. Voss

(Source: Game Credits)

Game Rip

Format

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Audio Devices

The USF format (used as N64) only by hardware tuned by RCP: SP (Sound and Graphics Processor) built in developed by Silicon Graphics. The game uses sound driver by David Pridie.

Releases

  USA.svg   USA
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Title: The New Tetris
Platform: Nintendo 64
Released: 1999-08-02
Publisher: Nintendo
  Australia.svg   Australia
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Title: The New Tetris
Platform: Nintendo 64
Released: 1999-10-15
Publisher: Nintendo
  EU.svg   EU
The New Tetris - N64 - EU.jpg
Title: The New Tetris
Platform: Nintendo 64
Released: 1999-10-15
Publisher: Nintendo

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