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Oh, “brick game” like Tetris, I initially assumed “brick game” like Breakout.

This is very cool! I had one of these N-in-1 generic block game consoles when I was a kid. I was very surprised at the variety and surprisingly acceptable quality of all available games.

Sadly, the Brick Game model from which the ROM dump was taken doesn't contain a racing game, which was in the Brick Game that I had as a child.

I added Mac OS compatibility: https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/brickgame-4bit/pull/1

I taught myself probably 5 languages making an ASCII version of Space Invaders way back in the day.

Do you have some screenshots?

Does it count as a screenshot?

Game select screen:

       HI-SCORE              0
         
 /--------------------\
 |                    |
 |                    | NEXT
 |                    |
 |      [][][]        |
 |    []      []      |
 |    []      []      |
 |    []      []      |
 |    []      []      | SPEED  0
 |    []      []      |
 |      [][][]        | LEVEL 12
 |                    |
 |    [][][][][]      |
 |    []              |
 |    [][][][]        |  ROTATE
 |            []      |
 |            []      |    -->
 |    []      []      |
 |      [][][]        |
 |                    |
 |                    |
 \--------------------/

Tetris game:

          SCORE            1000
 
 /--------------------\
 |                    |
 |                    | NEXT
 |                    |
 |                    | []      
 |            [][]    | [][]    
 |            [][]    |   []    
 |                    |
 |                    | SPEED  0
 |                    |
 |                    | LEVEL  0
 |                    |
 |[][]                |
 |[][]  []            |
 |[][][][]            |  ROTATE
 |[][][][]  []  [][][]|
 |[][][][][][]  [][]  |    -->
 |[][][][][]    [][][]|
 |[][][][][][]  [][][]|  PAUSE
 |[][][][][][][]  [][]|
 |[][][][][][]  [][][]|         
 \--------------------/

Is this the first design of tetris?

I think not. There is not only Tetris, but also Snake, and two types of "shooters" - one removes blocks, the other creates. And many variations of these four basic games.

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