A Version of Tetris You've NEVER Heard of! 

Different music on tetris?? 1.0? Japanese? Slightly different art and numbers? Amazing.

I’ve had a one of these copies of Tetris for years and never knew why they were different.

I didn’t know for years that the Tetris “theme” was exclusive for gameboy and didn’t know why all other versions had music from the nutcracker and stuff

If dankpods and ashens had a kid, and that kid somehow survived, it'd be this guy

2:46 nicely dubbed, sir!

Reminds me of trying to find the mega drive version of moonwalk that has thriller still intact :P

Every Copy of Tetris is personalized

>*Covers up the screen* >*Shows an unobscured screen cap at the same time* Genius.

I just looked at my copy at my house. I can’t believe it’s actually the Minuet Tetris. I have the big box version with the link cable. This game was actually a gift from a friend a few years ago and he paid $5 for it at a flea market from what I understand. Also, we’re in Houston, TX... I wouldn’t have known about it had I not saw this video. Thanks!

"When you think of tetris: what is the music that comes into yo head?" Expected answer: mother russia. My answer: "I'm yours forever- there is no end is sight for us. Nothing to measure 🎶 the kind of strength inside our hearts, it's all connected~ 🎶"

i have the ROM of tetris for when i get bored in my phone, i never understood why it had different music lol

The " at the end of the " dubbing really had me laughing. :)

I like how you've been wearing the watch you recently refurbished, just makes me happy whenever I notice you're wearing it!

Another way to differentiate them is if it automatically goes to the title screen after 2 seconds instead of 8 seconds, it's the Minuet version.

Tetris minuet is actually quite common in asia especially southeast asia because back then we import the games from Japan and usually it's a release version 1.0

In today's video, Elliot shows Super Mario World is not the only game he is bad at.

I found it by accident years ago when I downloaded a Tetris rom and wondered why the music was different.

You forget to mention that the game progression system is different as well

Is there a reason as to why the music was changed? It wasn't like first copies of Sonic Spinball at all?

The A Type song we all know is called Korobeniki.

I genuinely thought I knew everything about Tetris, and somehow this escaped me for all these years! Thanks for sharing this man. Now I need to find myself a copy!

Great fun video Elliot :-)

TRF: Provides a detailed explanation on how to spot a 1.0 cart Also TRF: wiLL iT bE THe oNe

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and helping me score a copy. Very excited to receive it!

One sec I'm eating Cheetos, I'll be back in like an hour.

I have one of these! I found out they existed a few years back when I bought a random copy in a lot of games. I kept it becuase of how rare it is.

I'm just here for your amazing Tetris playing skills.

Man I really wish they had this song as a music type option, it's really nice!

Fascinating stuff. That 2 player Tetris segment brought back memories of playing with friends on a long coach journey coming back from a school trip.

That NES pad looks like it has been services with a Doc's Controller Repair kit. I bought mine from K-Mart in the early '90s. Also bought their NES cleaning kit. Fun fact: the cases for both doubled as NES game Pak cases. :)

When I saw the start of this video, I immediately knew what the music would sound like because for some reason I have this version of the rom on my Bitt Boy. Now we have confirmation that this is the Japanese exclusive. Pretty cool stuff

Nice macintosh floral shoppe t shirt looking fresh!

when you realize you have that tetris version- ( its teared apart some years ago xD ) ( I still have that cartridge )

Love the videos dude, I must say the dubbing to swap letter and number was a little terrifying for a moment.

You are going to make me go downstairs and open up my big box of Gameboy games and check my Japanese version of Tetris now. LOL

You know, I consider myself a pretty hardcore Nintendo trivia addict and have read just about every book on the subject that I can find, and I never knew this bit of trivia. This is awesome.

i love how exciting it is but then the music is just cute 8 bit

I think the familiar theme has more tension whilst somehow upbeat. This 1.0 version is almost too chilled for Tetris; I think it would more suit the inside of someone's house in Link's Awakening or Oracle Of Ages/Seasons. Nice tune and epic find. 👌

Elliot i just bought this version because of your video!!! and because you describe how to see which version is from the sticker i found one for only 4 euros!!!! LOVED it man!!! Love your channel!!! PS. I use Sendico (not for this game) often also because of you! Keep doing great videos mate! love from Greece :D

But can you do multiplayer between the A and non-A versions!?

I actually downloaded a ROM of Tetris on the Game Boy once a while back, and it happened to be the 1.0 version. I was very confused about the music, that's how I learned about the different versions lol

Your videos are so good, thanks for the great content

Back in my day on the N64 we called the long thin hole. The "pim hole" no idea why just came up and from that moment on it was always called that :)

When you watch this video and have 7 of these sitting around and didn't realize they were worth anything at all.

God, I downloaded a ROM of Tetris to use with an emulator at least ten or so years ago, and it was the 1.0 revision. I then got the 3DS release of Game Boy Tetris and wondered why that had the theme, not even considering that it could be a revisional difference. And then I found this video, where it was all answered. Thank you, Retro Future, for answering this godforsaken question I somehow couldn't find the answer to for over a decade.

I had a dream we hung out at a museum together.... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??

I remember watching gameplay of this version of tetris but was so confused why music A was different

lol i literally saw him not sit but like flew back to his chair so fucking funny

Love how excited you guys get.

Just jumped on Sendico and found one for 880yen! Look forward to checking that out :D

Everybody gangster till the Japanese kid pulls out his rare copy of Tetris and the music starts hitting different

hello elliot, I figured out...in the "normal" tetris version you get 1) a small rocket when you reach >100.000 points, 2) a slightly bigger one when you get >150.000 points and 3) the biggest one when you get >200.000 points. in the 1.0 version of tetris you get rocket nr. 2) already with >100.000 points... mastering level 9-5 gets you the buran shuttle ;)

Elliot:a version of tetris you never heard Me:it's just tetris no big deal

Interesting, I've had a copy for years now that I bought in a GB game lot auction (there was like 2/3 copies of tetris in it). I wondered about the different music but never really looked into it.

Another way to tell if it’s Minuet version is by looking at the “Made in Japan” text at the bottom of the front sticker, the words should neatly be inside the red lines of the background art, where as the 1.1 version the red lines will pass through the letters!

3 - 4 years ago was still a good time to snag these copies of eBay from Japan in bulk. Shipping was dirt cheap at that point. About every ninth to tenth copy was the minuet version back then. I know because I bookmarked every auction from a bulk seller and sorted the copies by label. So its definitely more then 25k copies, because the Japanese version of Tetris sold multiple millions. Only few people knew about the label differences back then and everyone was just checking the prod. facility imprint, which appears only rarely on product photos. There are more obvious label difference that can be gleamed (with some good faith) from eBay thumbnail photos. What turns out to be really rare is the boxed Tetris - Tsushin (= "communication" or "cable") version. It is Tetris (always with the minuet version; it was a launch product) in a bigger box including the link cable, because that was not bundled with Japanese Gameboys, but Nintendo still wanted to underline the social/multiplayer aspect of its small screen handheld. Its product code is "DMG-TRAT" not "DMG-TRA" and I have seen about 10 copies in 5 years on eBay, but I do not follow these things as closely as I did years ago.

Ive been here from pretty close to the start and i cant believe you got 300k have fun dude :D Edit: cant wait for you to get quarter of a million subs :D

welp, these prices are gonna spike now ;)

It sounds like im on my way to a Pokémon gym battle

I hope that "hovering into your seat" bit at the start was an intentional nod to my favorite monty python sketch, in which case, good taste 👍 if not, I'm watching too many old BBC serials...

Your little "woosh" sound in your intro animation freaks my dogs out every time I watch your videos

Whenever i downloaded the tetris rom for my Raspberry pi, i used to think i downloaded a fake one. Never knew about the 0.0 version

I actually have this version of the game, it came with a DMG I got on eBay

I'm glad you made this vid! I have a boot leg copy of Tetris with the rarer music on it. At first I was mad about it but now I see that it's cool in its own way.

I've always wondered why my sticker on my tetris cartridge was different form the others. It still works although it's very yellowed out

lmao I'm a Tetris collector and just checked my CIB DMG Gameboy Tetris from japan and its the 'Minuet Version' and there are no hyphens in between the Bullet-Proof

awesome great content man I actually just uploaded a reshelling of my GBC because you inspired me!!!!

The Mario Vs Luigi bit is really cool! Also really enjoy the different music. For v1.1 I always prefer song 2 personally. I wish i knew how it felt to use a nes controller to play it but sadly last time i played i had to emulate it and use touch screen controls, but I still got good with that and beat the game eventually. lol Really interesting video! :)

I tried 2 weeks ago to connect two DMG with cable at first time... I was wondering in childhood (now I'm 37) how tetris looks on 2 players, but no one had another one DMG to try. Mario and Luigi - that so cute.

That explains why my tetris rom has a different song than what I remember.

Elliot: aaaw thats so anti climactic Also Elliot: covering the crt just to show the captured footage on another screen in the corner. Gotta love this channel

Do not blow into the cartridge! Use a pink eraser and rub the contacts with that to clean it first, and if still needed then use a contact cleaner made for cleaning these types of contacts. The moisture from your breath is what makes the cart work again, but it will destroy the contacts over time. This goes for all cartridges.

Sounds pretty much like a song from pokemon red. Maybe cycling road or another route

My friend had one of those and I thought it was the strangest thing ever that it had different music, had no idea why it had different music though.

Insane I picked up 3 boxed copies recently but never checked which version. And I almost gifted one away due to not knowing the true value. Without following your channel and watching your regular content, I would never have ever known. Much appreciated, Elliott ❤️

All the Pokémon rom hacks and Tetris variations, I would love some more homebrew or fan made romhacks on a physical cartridge.

When I started to emulate gameboy I found hard to find the normal version of tetris all of them where this version

Whoa, that dark grey DMG looks choice man

Fun fact, those who speedrun Tetris on the GameBoy prefer the 1.0 version since certain animations are slightly faster.

Damn I’ve been trying to get a copy of one of these forever, still looking hopefully I’ll own a copy one day.

I found another version of the 1.0 “Minuet” version, it has the number “22” stamped in the corner rather than 23, but the spire touches the end of “all” like the later carts, instead of in between the them, like yours.

I watched this video when you published It and started searching for the minuet version... I found an auction with 3 copies, 00A, 23A and 23... I didn't tought i could win that... But i did, i was the only bidder... 35€ shopped and i can't wait to recieve It and expand my collection🤩

Same stamping method on n64 as well; an A after the number is 1.1, and a B would be 1.2

The Elliot-bot glitched at 2:48.

Oh boy, rare Tetris! Why am I excited for this?

I always appreciate elliot bc it just seems like the dude sucks at videogames, and their his favorite hobby!!! Really inspiring to just have someone doing what they love.

Imagine if someone had this copy and didn't know it was rare so they threw it away / sold it for a really cheap price thinking it was a bootleg

Congrats on 300K subs

this is pretty cool! i know the NES and GB versions have different music, but obviously had no idea about this! i’m actually a fan of the B-type music, nice and relaxing. might be the C-type. no idea at the mo!

Trying to listen to the song that this whole video is based off of, proceeds to yell so you can hear the song...

The one everybody wants is the Sega version which I believe the Last Gamer owns a copy (maybe 2) only between 4-8 were made!

Interesting piece of absolutely forgotten history.

Fantastic video... Please do more showing how to tell rare versions of games please

this reminded me of the Tengen Tetris vs Nintendo Tetris (both on NES, obviously), another semi-interesting tidbit of gaming trivia involivng Tetris

the bar on the left of your screen tells you how high your enemie's screen is stacked in 2 player

So glad they switched the music to the one we know

Tetris DX also had unique music compared to other Tetris versions.

*Reads* "A Version of Tetris You've NEVER Heard of! " *Me:* "I wonder is he means the original Gameboy version of Tetris with Minuet A type music?"

Was that a bit of ADR when talking about the letters and numbers? Haha. Great video, the minuet version is fascinating.

It seemed like he'd never played multiplayer Tetris on a Gameboy before...kids today! :D