Egaint

Box front of Egaint

Details

Released
1989
Developer
Eric Ng
Publisher
Freeware
Genre
Puzzle / Falling block puzzle, Strategy
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Freeware \ Shareware
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Not included

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Title screen of Egaint
Title screen
Gameplay of Egaint
Gameplay
Gameplay of Egaint
Gameplay

About this game

EGAint Is Not Tetris... got it? In fact, it's a freeware Tetris style game, one of the earliest such releases on the IBM PC. Being that it was so small (under 100kb, an easy 2400 baud download), Egaint lacked the background pictures Tetris players enjoyed, but it did sport high-resolution graphics and some custom game settings, including several exotically-named block styles, and shapes not seen in most Tetris clones. The game featured a "tournament mode", with a fixed, non-random set of falling blocks, but no multiplayer support. The package also included a separate, text-mode version, simply called AINT.