I've never owned or used an Atari Jaguar, but in another forum someone mentioned that the Jaguar was twenty years old this year, so I had a look on the 'net, and was surprised to see that (unless I've missed it), Tetris never came out on the Jaguar. There's no cast iron reason why it should, of course, but since Tetris is so hugely popular, so easy to write, and so very widespread, I'd sort of assumedit was on most machines, at least machines that were commercially supported after Tetris first appeared (i.e. so not the ZX80, Jupiter Ace, the Fairchild console, etc). After all, surely it's certain to sell a fair amount of copies, and compared to almost every other game it's very easy and quick to write. Google shows there's a fan made Tetris for it, but from what I can see there's no official version. Was there a Jaguar version, and it got cancelled or released in limited numbers, or whatever? And what other machines (consoles, computer, handheld) never had saw an official release of Tetris?
32X and Neo Geo never had a Tetris. Neither did the N-Gage or the 3DO, but funnily enough the CD-i did.
I don't know about ordinary Tetris, but Tertisphere, was originally going to come out on the Jag, until the name Phear, but it was cancelled, and then brought out on the N64. http://www.unseen64.net/wp-content/gallery/phear-tetrisphear/phear-tetrisphear-jaguar.jpg
Game Gear, Gizmondo, game.com and Tapwave Zodiac owners didn't get their Tetris fix. And the WiiU didn't have it either, until a few days ago (Puyo Puyo Tetris - Japan-only for now).
Technically the Neo Geo did have a Tetris game at launch. It was called Joy Joy Kid (or Puzzled outside of Japan). Very close to the source material.
Do the XB1 or PS4 have one yet? Other than the Genesis and European Mega Drive (Sega released a clone of their arcade version in Japan very very briefly) I can't think of any others.
Tetris Plus in 1996 was the first official console game not published by Nintendo in USA and Europe. Master System could've sold OK. Atari 2600 or 7800 were too close to death when Tetris got big.
Mega Drive did not receive a Tetris, they recalled it and only a handful of copies survived. The only Tetris-game that was widely available for MD was a Chinese clone cartridge. Systems without Tetri that I can think of: Sega Mark III & Master System Mega Drive Mega CD 32X NEC PC-Engine HuCard NEC PC-Engine A/S/CD NEC PC-FX Panasonic 3DO Atari Jaguar/CD Bandai Playdia Apple/Bandai Pippin Nintendo 64DD Nuon Gizmondo Nokia N-Gage Sony PSP (only download)
If we're including addons, the Sega Power Base Converter comes to mind... I would count that as 'available' (unless it's an emulated PS1 release)? With the emphasis on online content these days it'd make no sense to exclude downloadable titles imho.
I think this comparison does not work because there were no exclusive games for the convertor, those were just MS/MK3 games (which I already listed as a separate console). N64DD counted as a separate platform just like MCD or 32X, because it used different media and had games released just for this format. It's not an emulated PS1-release but some sort of PSN-thingy, available for PSVita as well and only came out in 2010. Personally, I wouldn't count it as a real Tetris-title. Afterall, Sony had to make up Lumines in the first place, showing the clear lack of a Tetris.
NUON had a version of "The Next Tetris" offered up as a mail-in freebie with the purchase of the original Toshiba NUON player.
