Tetris: The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 - MAME machine

Arcade Video game published 24 years ago:

Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 © 2000 Arika.

TECHNICAL
Main CPU: SH-2 (@ 28.63635 Mhz)
Sound Chips: YMF278B (@ 28.63635 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Horizontal
Video resolution: 320 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.00 Hz
Colors palette: 5120

Players: 2
Control: 8-way Joystick
Buttons: 3

TRIVIA
This game was released in December 2000 in Japan only.

If you enter the initials, they will be changed to 'ARK', which stands for Arika, the company that made the game:
'666'
'A '
'AA '
'AAA'
'AHO'
'ASS'
'AUM' (Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese new religious movement organization)
'DIE'
'ETA'
'FUC'
'FUK'
'HIV'
'IRA'
'KKK'
'OSI'
'PEE'
'PIS'
'PLO'
'SEX'

TIPS AND TRICKS

• Maintenance Code:

4-1-5-7-3 All Data Initialized.
4-1-7-6-5 Best Score Erased.

The following 4 are also tested for, but appear to be disabled:
1-3-5-7-9
0-2-4-6-8
4-1-3-7-3
5-0-2-1-3

SERIES
1) Tetris The Grand Master (1998)
2) Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 (2000)
3) Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 Plus (2000)
4) Tetris The Grand Master 3 - Terror-Instinct (2005)
5) Tetris The Grand Master 4 - The Masters of Round (2009)

STAFF
Sound Staff: Megaten, Rya
Background Design: Iwaroka, Matsumoto, Roki, Yamaguchi, Funato, Tanaka, Matsumura, Tanaoka, Dan, Ushiroda, Yamamoto, Tsuruha
Effect Design: Sakai
Programmer: Karasawa, Hashidate
Visual Design: Chiba
Director: Hashidate
Planner & Producer: Mihara

CONTRIBUTE
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