YouTube channel Apple Demo presented a mini review of the prototype of the third-generation iPod player equipped with the unreleased Stacker game, a copy of the popular Tetris game. The iPod engineering prototype included Stacker as well as other unreleased games such as Block0 and Klondike. Apple Demo noted the finding attention The Verge’s edition.
Rather than indicating the storage capacity, the player had the word DVT on the back panel, indicating that this was a test sample in the middle stages of development. Two songs and a playlist were stored in the device’s memory, and the copy itself was used to test the battery.
After inserting the drive into the second generation iPod, booting from the drive was successful and Stacker launched from the games on it. In this version of the game, the movement of pieces was carried out using the navigation wheel, and the button in the middle allowed you to “reset” the figure to the bottom of the screen. The aim of the game remained the same; Get more points by filling and clearing rows of blocks. However, in this implementation the game turned out to be slightly flawed – at least one piece of block got stuck when returned to a pile.
The authors of Apple Demo contacted Tony Fadell, former senior vice president of Apple’s iPod division, to find out why the Tetris clone didn’t make it to the final version of the device. Fadell had only one comment on this matter: “Because we added the games in a later software version.” A few years later, Apple finally released licensed Tetris for “classic” versions of the iPod, which supported the installation of games purchased from the iTunes Store.
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Source: Gazeta
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