Tetrisphere is a video game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Development of the game was done by H2O, located at the time in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Tetrisphere is a variant on Tetris in which various shapes are shifted across a wrapped three-dimensional grid and destroyed. The objective of the game changes depending on the mode, but generally depends on removing layers of shapes to reach the bottom layer. The game's playfield is a layered...
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Tetrisphere is a video game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Development of the game was done by H2O, located at the time in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Tetrisphere is a variant on Tetris in which various shapes are shifted across a wrapped three-dimensional grid and destroyed. The objective of the game changes depending on the mode, but generally depends on removing layers of shapes to reach the bottom layer. The game's playfield is a layered 32 x 32 grid which wraps from top to bottom and side to side. Whilst this playfield presents visually as a sphere, the underlying topology of the game's playfield is homeomorphic to a torus.
Tetrisphere was also accredited for its techno-style soundtrack composed by Neil D. Voss, who later composed the music for The New Tetris as well. IGN.com conducted an interview with Voss in June 1998 in light of the acclaim, and Nintendo Power gave it an award for "Best Soundtrack" of 1997 in their January 1998 issue.
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