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Blockout (Arcade)

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Regional and revisional differences

"I AM THE BLOCKMASTER. AND I DARE YOU TO DEFEAT ME AT BLOCKOUT. CHALLENGE ME!" -The Blockmaster

What's that, Lassie? Tetris fell down a well?

Blockout is basically like 3-D Tetris on the Virtual Boy, minus all the headaches and redness.

Its soundtrack also became somewhat famous for being used in an Italian bootleg of Joe & Mac called Stoneage.

The following text is stored in the audio CPU at 0x0F80:

 Technos Japan 
OPM/MSM6295(Oki)
  Sound System  
Date Aug/29/1989
 (c) Copyright  
   1987,1988    
 Studio Loaple  
                

This is almost identical to the message in US Championship V'Ball, save for the different build date and the blank line where the phone number used to be.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

References#


  1. Computer & Video Games - November 1989↩︎
  2. Domestic and Overseas Arcade Game List 1971-2005↩︎