Official Versions
An "official" version of Scrabble is coming to Facebook for US and Canadian users. But will it equal or be better than Scrabulous?
Official versions don't always work out as well as you'd expect; for example, Atari 2600 Pac Man was a bizarre adaptation of the original. But the worst official/unofficial conflict in gaming was the NES Tetris battle.
Tengen Tetris was the first version of the game available for the NES and it was a playable, faithful version of the original (and fortunately, we had that version). But after a complicated legal battle:
June 21, 1989 - Tengen's version of Tetris is taken off the shelves, and manufacture of the Tengen version is ceased. Several hundred thousand copies of Tengen Tetris, sitting in their boxes, lie in a warehouse.
Nintendo's "official" version of Tetris, which was released the following month, was garbage. It sold a lot of copies because of the name, but it was a very poor version of the game.
Click here to play Tengen Tetris.
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