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for the

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. It was released only in English in Japan in 1998, and is the only Nintendo 64 game that works with the bio sensor accessory, which it included.

Bio sensor

The bio sensor is a

accessory produced by

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and only available in Japan. It was sold on its own or packaged with ''Tetris 64''. It looks like a Nintendo 64

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with a wire coming out of it with a clip on the end. One end of the sensor plugs into the extension port on the Nintendo 64 controller, and the other end clips onto the player's ear. The device measures the user's heart rate and adjusts the game's difficulty accordingly.

Reception

The game was praised for its multiplayer mode, and was at the time the only Nintendo 64 ''Tetris'' game which allowed four-player mode. The game was criticized for its poor graphics and simple backgrounds which could not match other ''Tetris'' games out on the system at the same time, such as ''

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'' or ''

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''. ''

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'' gave it a score of 27 out of 40.

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References

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