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developed by

Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov. (born 16 April 1955) is a Russian-born American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best-known for designing and developing ''Tetris'' in 1984 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the ...

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version was manufactured by Video System.

Gameplay

''Hatris'' plays similarly to Pazhitnov's previous ''

Tetris ''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the appro ...

'', in that game objects falling from the top of the screen must be arranged in specific patterns to gain points and to keep the play area clear. In ''Hatris'', hats of different styles fall from the top of the screen and accumulate at the bottom. To eliminate hats from the play area, five hats of identical style must be stacked. Different style hats stack differently.

Reception

In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed the arcade version of ''Hatris'' on their June 1, 1990 issue as being the eighteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month. ''

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'' gave the Game Boy version of ''Hatris'' an A and wrote that "There is, after all, a cure for Tetris addiction. It’s Hatris, a habit that's even harder to kick."

References

External links

* * 1990 video games Alexey Pajitnov games Arcade video games Blue Planet Software games Falling block puzzle games Game Boy games Microcabin games Mobile games Nintendo Entertainment System games TurboGrafx-16 games Video games developed in Japan {{Puzzle-videogame-stub