http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-28T16:37:21 -05.00 retroplayer 43
Really awesome find, by the way!  Are you going to sell it? ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-28T16:08:23 -05.00 retroplayer 43 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T20:44:26 -05.00 retroplayer 43
I am fortunate to still have this treasure as it is the only prototype I own.

Believe it or not we were not given review copies in those early EGM days.
Occasionally Ed Semrad(EIC)and I would take games home for Review Crew
but were expected to bring them back the next day.

I honestly don't recall how this came into my collection, must have been a fluke.
I must have asked Ed to take it home because Tetris was and is one of my favorite games of all time.

I was recently cleaning my basement and found this "Duck Hunt" cart in my crate of NES games.
Who knew it was a piece of gaming history that would be well preserved over 20 years later.
]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T01:03:51 -05.00 retroplayer 43 Originally posted by: gwyndion

Maybe one day we will have public roms of them. That day is closer than most people realize.  ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T01:00:45 -05.00 retroplayer 43 Originally posted by: MrMark0673

Very clearly legit, please do yourself a favor and DO NOT open it. There are now three known copies of this floating around, though builds vary:

Yours
Mine (and Matt's)
The copy Dalliest owns

Your copy appears to be the same build as mine, though Dalliest's differs a bit

None have been dumped publicly, so the ROM isn't out there.

If you are going to sell it, think long and hard about how much you'd let it go for. This is a very significant proto as far as history is concerned.
As for the copy in this thread, I have no doubt that it's legitimate.  The price is impossible to pin down, but it will easily net four figures without much effort.

Congrats on the find and please feel free to let us know if you unearth any other gems from your EGM days! ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T00:45:48 -05.00 retroplayer 43 Originally posted by: MrMark0673

Tell me about it. Protos alone are confusing. You toss in the odd history of Tetris and things get thrown completely out the window.

The history of tetris, is a puzzle. Ironic
]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T00:18:13 -05.00 retroplayer 43 Originally posted by: DreamTR

My old Tetrises!

Yep, actually playing them right now with friends
]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-09T00:15:06 -05.00 retroplayer 43 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-08T23:54:13 -05.00 retroplayer 43 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=83705 2012-09-08T22:56:11 -05.00 retroplayer 43
A multicart with the different versions from oldest to newest would be REALLY cool :-) ]]>