Phear (Tetrisphear) [Jaguar - Unreleased]

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by In: jaguar|OTHERS

20 May 2009

Celine as make us to notice about a couple of interesting posts over at NFG Games (you can read them here and here) in which they talk about their visit to CES 1995, where they were able to play Phear.. the Jaguar game that later became  Tetrisphere for the Nintendo 64.

Tetrisphere is a variant on Tetris in which various shapes are shifted across a sphere and destroyed. The objective of the game changes depending on the mode, but generally depends on removing layers of shapes to reach the core of the sphere. [Infos from Wikipedia]

As NFG Games wrote in their posts, it seems that “Nintendo saw it running in Atari’s booth, walked over to the developer and offered $madcash for the rights to it”. A couple of pages from the original Jaguar’s Phear (aka Tetrisphear) brochure can also be see in there. Also Celine found a scan from EGM 98, in which we can see a Phear in-game screen from the early Jaguar version. Other screenshots could be admired in CdConsoles issue 4 and Game Fan issue 5-3.

Thanks to Celine for the contribution!

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2 Responses to Phear (Tetrisphear) [Jaguar - Unreleased]

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Celine

April 14th, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Updated.
This time with real in-game screenshots.

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monokoma

April 19th, 2011 at 2:54 pm

Thanks a lot for keeping the posts updated Celine! You are the best :)

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