H2O Entertainment

The New Tetris

The New Tetris is a 1999 puzzle video game developed by H2O Entertainment and Blue Planet Software and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. An entry in the Tetris series, it showcases scenic fly-bys of structures, such as the Sphinx, the Pantheon, Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Mayan temple, and others, rendered in real-time. Achieving this level of quality was relatively challenging for the Nintendo 64 hardware.[citation needed]The New Tetris features a multiplayer mode with up to four players and an electronic dance music soundtrack by Neil Voss, who also composed the music for Tetrisphere. There are several key differences in gameplay from the original Tetris. First, in addition to clearing lines, players can also form 4x4 large squares of four pieces to create "blocks.