On October 24, 1986, the red and white version of Tetris was released. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On October 31, Nintendo's first-party "whereabouts" game "Doctor Mary" was released.

On November 1st, Sega's "Diamond Cube" arcade machine was released.

You only have to take a look at Tetris in action to see how the game plays - check for gaps and eliminate blocks line by line before the shapes of different shapes take over the entire screen.

This anomaly is in keeping with humanity's compulsion to turn chaos into order, and a five-minute trial can quickly turn into an hour of intense combat.

Even PONG, Space Invaders, and Super Mario Bros. have all been all the rage, but none of them have been as addictive, day and night, as Tetris.

On November 3, the first week of sales of the red and white version of Tetris was confirmed.

500,000 sets.

This not only reached the previous one of 10,000 households in a week, but also almost all the sales of the first red-and-white game "Endless Fantasy". It also created the largest sales volume in the first week of the history of the red and white machine.

It seems that the streets of Tokyo are filled with the background music "Merchant" of Tetris.

A square pendant hanging from a school bag.

Grab the block pillow in the crane machine.

Gummy cubes for the little ones.

It's as if the whole book has entered a parallel time and space because of a game.

On Sunday, November 2, the first weekend edition of "Takahashi's Party" aired at 6 p.m. on TV Tokyo. Seiko Matsuda, a top superstar in this book and known as one of the three great singers of the Showa era along with Misora Skylark and Yamaguchi Momoe, was invited to participate in the show.

The ratings of the first episode of the program exceeded 10%, which was comparable to the ratings of the program hosted by Akashi's saury in the same period.

On November 15, the sales of the red-and-white version of Tetris exceeded 1 million.

Wanhu became the sixth third-party manufacturer to join the Nintendo Red and White Machine Million Sales Club, and at the same time, it was also the fastest to break through one million sales.

On November 16, Takahashi announced in a high-profile announcement in the weekend edition of the third installment of "Takahashi's Party" that the Tetris national tour will be held.

The winner of the age category will receive 1 million yen, and the champion of all ages will receive 10 million yen.

In December, William, the current president of Broadbond, the general agent of 10,000 games in North America, personally flew to Yuben to negotiate the agency business of "Tetris" in North America.

In mid-December, the "Tetris" arcade machine was introduced and landed in North America.

Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis, Boston and other cities appeared in Tetris for the first time.

Accompanied by falling squares, the melody of "The Merchant" resounded throughout the United States. Politicians declared this a cultural aggression against the United States by the Soviet camp, demanding a ban on the Tetris arcade.

After congressional discussions, the ban proposal was dismissed. Tetris swept newspapers all over the United States.

At the beginning of 1987, the American version of the red and white NES landed in North America, and "Tetris" was the only non-Nintendo first-party debut.

With the game "Tetris", Wanhu's operating income has skyrocketed dozens of times. In terms of capital, 10,000 households have officially entered the ranks of the first-line game manufacturers.

The only fly in the ointment is that the European market has not opened smoothly.

In countries led by the United Kingdom, customs refused to pass through the Tetris arcade. Wanhu is targeting the European market and de-"Russifying" Tetris.

When everything went well, Wanhu increased the shipment of various versions of "Tetris", and stepped up to promote several adapted games of Wanhu to land on the red and white machine.

Friday, January 18, 1987. Five 10,000 games were released at the same time, friends were surprised, and fans carnivaled.

This day is known as the "Day of Ten Thousand Households".

In February 1987, Takahashi began to hold the "Tetris" contest on touring the whole book. "Takahashi's Party" has also launched a special part of the continuous "Tetris National Competition".

Many film and television people were invited to participate in the special production of "Takahashi's Party", and each issue not only reflects the style of players, but also reflects the customs of various places.

For the first time, Takahashi put forward the slogan in the show, "The world's players are one!"

In early March 1987, the Tetris National Grand Prix qualifiers ended.

Forty-seven regional champions competed for the champions of each age group, one hundred and forty-two.

Among them, there are two champions in the adult category in Gunma Prefecture in the Kanto region. Two young men in their early twenties ran a "Tetris" marathon, and in the difficult arcade version of "Tetris", they completed the record of 23 hours of continuous play, and the arcade machine crashed and fell at the same time.

Takahashi specially interviewed the two and gave them deep condolences and greetings. However, he did not support the duo's actions, saying that the game should be played in moderation, and that a competition version of the Tetris arcade would be made to prevent this from happening again.

In mid-March 1987, the cumulative sales of the Tetris-like game "Doctor Mary" on the red and white platform exceeded 800,000 units. Sega's SG-1000 platform game "Tetris" "Diamond Cube" sold more than 500,000 units.

A series of Tetris-like game groups have sprung up in the arcade, led by Diamond Cube. Taito, Namco, Konami, SNK, Capcom, have all launched such arcade games.

At the beginning of April 1987, the sales of the five games released on the day of ten thousand households, "Tower of Magic 1 &2", "Bubble Bobble 1 &2", "Magic Bubble Dragon", "Rainbow Island" and "Wonder Boy", all exceeded 500,000 units, and were known as the miracle of ten thousand households.

On Saturday, May 16, 1987, the Tetris National Finals were held at the Tokyo National Stadium.

Stadiums with a standard capacity of 80,000 people sell tickets close to the maximum capacity of 90,000 people. The audience was packed, and countless temporary acts were even added.

This is an unparalleled highlight moment for Tetris, for 10,000 households, for players, and even for the video game industry.

Not only were there nearly 90,000 viewers at the scene, but there were also countless viewers watching in front of the TV, and the inter-factory advertising fee for this episode of "Takahashi's Party" has risen to one million yen per second.

Countless Tetris players watched this unprecedented game event with excitement.

The little geisha pointed to Takahashi on the TV and said crisply, "Sister, is this the person you like?"

Countless players who are intertwined with Takahashi's fate because of the game are watching this unprecedented game event either on the spot or in front of the TV.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the eight-bit flavor of "Merchant" sounded, and the game began!