Same with pong, pacman and breakout

Tetris is copyrighted by EA now right?

If wikipedia is correct, there's a tetris holding that manages all the games. It licenses to developers to make the game for their platform, so if I understand correctly not nintendo, not ea are the legit owner of the trademark

IIRC the guy who created Tetris (Alexei Pajitnov) would be the guy who holds all the copyrights, but I think creating a Tetris-like (without the Tetris name) would be fine.

That said, they have yet to sue for ZTetris, Ntris and ZTris, though. I guess maybe they don't care as long as you sell a Tetris clone for money (Kinda like Valve with Portal clones)

Also back on the expensive games topic, I read at many places that SNES retailed for $40-60 in USA unless they were Chrono Trigger and the like, while N64 games usually didn't go above $50-60. Is that true? If it's the case then the overly expensive game thing seen in the catalogs on the 1st page might have entirely been due to low canadian dollar (Back in the '90s, $1 CDN was worth $0.70 USD), but maybe somebody from USA who was old enough to remember might be able to confirm?

From this page (assuming that this is from USA), it might partially be right, although some games seemed more expensive, even when they were sports games. http://www.huguesjohnson.com/scans/ebspring93/EBSpring93_03_Genesis.jpg

More http://www.huguesjohnson.com/scans/ebspring93/

That is from 1993, though. From what I remember, the jump in SNES game prices happened around 1994-96.

EDIT: Lol there was Sonic 2 for the GB? http://huguesjohnson.com/features/sears_catalog/wishbook-canada-1994-pg430_med.jpg