{"id":129970,"date":"2022-11-23T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141551"},"modified":"2022-11-23T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:45:00","slug":"surprise-hamster-is-bringing-the-hardest-tetris-series-to-switch-eshop-next-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/23\/surprise-hamster-is-bringing-the-hardest-tetris-series-to-switch-eshop-next-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Hamster Is Bringing The Hardest Tetris Series To Switch eShop Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ae2d954c0329\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ae2d954c0329\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tetris: The Grand Master\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ae2d954c0329\/tetris-the-grand-master.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9ae2d954c0329\/tetris-the-grand-master.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Tetris: The Grand Master\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: via Famitsu \/ Arika, Hamster Corp<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you think you&#8217;ve played all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/tetris\">Tetris<\/a> games, think again! The Japan-only 1998 title <strong>Tetris: The Grand Master<\/strong> will be receiving a Switch eShop release next week on December 1st. Hamster Corp will be adding this Arika title to its well-known Arcade Archive series, so there&#8217;s a good chance there&#8217;ll be a western release at some point.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to announce that we have licensed &#8220;TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER&#8221; to Hamster Inc. for porting to NintendoSwitch and Playstation4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/arika_co_jp\/statuses\/1594964815746928643 @ 2022-11-23T06:02:22+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tgm_series?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tgm_series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30cf\u30e0\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u69d8\u306b\u300cTETRIS THE GRAND MASTER\u300d\u306eNintendoSwitch\u53ca\u3073Playstation4\u3078\u306e\u79fb\u690d\u8a31\u8afe\u3057\u305f\u4e8b\u3092\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that we have licensed &#8220;TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER&#8221; to Hamster Inc. for porting to NintendoSwitch and Playstation4.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 \u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30ea\u30ab\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@arika_co_jp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arika_co_jp\/status\/1594964815746928643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some of the defining features of Tetris: The Grand Master is the fact the game includes up to 999 levels and was the first title to add 20G gravity, which results in blocks appearing right at the bottom of a screen, granting players just half a second to organise the placement of them.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s unclear if this will get a western release, but if we hear any updates &#8211; we&#8217;ll let you know. In the meantime, you can always check out the other Tetris offerings on Nintendo Switch, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tetris_99\">Tetris 99<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tetris_effect_connected\">Tetris Effect: Connected<\/a>. Hamster will also be adding the Namco shoot &#8217;em up title <strong>Galaxian<\/strong> to the Arcade Archives on November 24th. This is apparently the first time a game from the 1970s has joined Hamster&#8217;s retro lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in playing the Grand Master series on Switch? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: via Famitsu \/ Arika, Hamster Corp If you think you&#8217;ve played all the Tetris games, think again! The Japan-only 1998 title Tetris: The Grand Master will be receiving a Switch eShop release next week on December 1st. Hamster Corp will be adding this Arika title to its well-known Arcade Archive series, so there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}