Editing Tetrisphere (section)

{{Short description|1997 video game}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Tetrisphere
| image = Nintendo 64 Tetrisphere cover art.png
| caption = North American cover art
| developer = H2O Entertainment
| publisher = [[Nintendo]]
| producer = Michael Tam
| designer = Steve Shatford
| programmer = Christopher Bailey
| artist = {{ubl|Christopher Bretz|Roland Longpre}}
| composer = [[Neil Voss]]
| series = ''[[List of Tetris variants|Tetris]]''
| platforms = [[Nintendo 64]]
| released = {{vgrelease|NA|August 11, 1997<ref>{{cite web|first=Helen|last=Lee|url=http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_07/02_tetris/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990504104718/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_07/02_tetris/index.html|title=Tetrisphere Gets Rolling|website=[[GameSpot]]|archivedate=May 4, 1999|date=July 2, 1997|accessdate=July 29, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mobygames.com/game/n64/tetrisphere/adblurbs|title=Tetrisphere: It's Out Of This World|location=Redmond, WA|publisher=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=August 7, 1997|accessdate=2011-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113030155/http://www.mobygames.com/game/n64/tetrisphere/adblurbs|archive-date=2012-11-13 |url-status=live}}</ref>|PAL|February 1998<ref name=CVG196>{{cite magazine|last=Bly|first=Steve|url=http://www.nintendo64ever.com/scans/mags/Scan-Magazine-1476-64.jpg|title=CVG Review - Nintendo 64 - Tetrisphere|magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]]|issue=196|publisher=[[Future Publishing]]|date=March 1998|page=64|accessdate=2018-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919025308/http://www.nintendo64ever.com/scans/mags/Scan-Magazine-1476-64.jpg|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| genre = [[Puzzle video game|Puzzle]]
| modes = [[Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
}}

'''''Tetrisphere''''' is a [[puzzle video game]] developed by H2O Entertainment and published by [[Nintendo]] for the [[Nintendo 64]]. It was released in North America on August 11, 1997, and in [[PAL region]]s in February 1998. The game, originally titled ''Phear,'' was initially intended for release on the [[Atari Jaguar]] in early 1995 but was reworked into a ''[[Tetris]]'' game for the N64 after Nintendo, a licensee for [[The Tetris Company]], obtained the publishing rights. 

''Tetrisphere'' is a variant of ''[[Tetris]]'' in which various shapes are shifted across a [[wraparound (video games)|wrapped]] [[three-dimensional]] grid resembling a sphere and subsequently destroyed. The game's objective varies depending on the mode but generally involves removing layers of shapes to reach the core of the playing field. Despite limited domestic advertising, ''Tetrisphere'' achieved moderately good sales{{cn|date=January 2024}} and received mostly favorable critical reviews. Reviewers praised the game's originality and the musical score composed by [[Neil Voss]].<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Tetrisphere Post-Mortem | magazine=[[Nintendo Power]] | publisher=Nintendo of America | volume=104 | date=January 1998}}</ref>