Tetris/Comparisons

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Version comparisons

Title screen

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

Copyright info

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

How to play

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (2019)

Menus

Main menu

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

Options

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

Gameplay

1 player

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

The 1989 Mega Drive version adds a status box that tracks how many times each Tetrimino has appeared in the current game.

2 players

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (1989)

Mega Drive (2019)

The 2019 Mega Drive version does not have the player indicators that are present in the System 16 version.

High scores

Arcade (System 16)

Arcade (System E)

Mega Drive (2019)

Localisation differences

Mega Drive version (2019)

Japanese

International

All regional variants of the Mega Drive Mini contain two seperate ROMs for Tetris: a Japanese ROM used for the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages, and an International ROM for all other languages. The International ROM disables the How to Play demo, and as a result the copyright notices cut straight to the high score table.