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In a 2009 interview with IGN conducted to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary, series creator Alexey Pajitnov named the Game Boy version of Tetris as his favorite rendition, describing it as the closest approximation of what he first had in mind for the game.
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was an avid Tetris player since the Game Boy's release. He got so good that he sent his scores to Nintendo Power multiple times, and always got the highest score. Eventually, Nintendo Power stopped publishing his name in the magazine. He then sent his name backwards (Evets Kainzow) in, which was then accepted and published.
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The original Japanese version 1.0 cartridge didn't have "Korobeiniki" as the "A-Type" music. It instead had another song called "Minuet".
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Footage of the Game Boy at Nintendo New York in 2006:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo
[Below links and info provided by MehDeletingLater.]
Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a27183316/nintendo-game-boy-survived-gulf-war/
G.I. Jobs article (Stephan Scoggins letter taken from Nintendo Power: Volume 26 [July 1991] - Page 7):
https://www.gijobs.com/gulf-war-game-boy/
Game Boy's removal from Nintendo New York (Note: Scoggins clarifies in the second link that a widely reported origin of the Game Boy being damaged in a bombing at his barracks is not true. He confirmed there was a bombing in the area he was stationed in, but that the Game Boy was damaged in a separate incident when his tent caught fire):
https://www.siliconera.com/the-gulf-war-game-boy-says-goodbye-to-nintendo-new-york-store-removed/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780549/gulf-war-game-boy-nintendo-nyc
Stephan Scoggins archived personal website biography:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230701201035/https://www.stephanscoggins.com/biography/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo
[Below links and info provided by MehDeletingLater.]
Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a27183316/nintendo-game-boy-survived-gulf-war/
G.I. Jobs article (Stephan Scoggins letter taken from Nintendo Power: Volume 26 [July 1991] - Page 7):
https://www.gijobs.com/gulf-war-game-boy/
Game Boy's removal from Nintendo New York (Note: Scoggins clarifies in the second link that a widely reported origin of the Game Boy being damaged in a bombing at his barracks is not true. He confirmed there was a bombing in the area he was stationed in, but that the Game Boy was damaged in a separate incident when his tent caught fire):
https://www.siliconera.com/the-gulf-war-game-boy-says-goodbye-to-nintendo-new-york-store-removed/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780549/gulf-war-game-boy-nintendo-nyc
Stephan Scoggins archived personal website biography:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230701201035/https://www.stephanscoggins.com/biography/
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Tetris was the first video game to be played in space. The game (and the Game Boy it was played on) spent 196 days on board the Mir Space Station in 1993, and orbited the earth more than 3,000 times. The game and system were auctioned off in 1996 for $1,220.
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