A YouTuber obtained access to an iPod manufactured in 2003. The device spawned a Tetris-like game called Stacker, which Apple never released.
Apple’s iPod device was undoubtedly once taking the world by storm. Of course, the company was doing a lot of work to bring innovations to the device at that time. Now one of them has come to light.
A YouTuber named AppleDemoYT shared images of a third-generation prototype iPod. In the images, the company A game similar to Tetris It was also seen that he developed it for the iPod.
Prototype device reveals Stacker, Apple’s never-released Tetris-like game
The device in question is a DVT. This means that there is a prototype in the middle of development. this deviceproduced in 2003 A prototype of the third generation iPod. It runs on the prototype of the iPodOS 2.0 operating system. We can see that it has the iconic design of the iPod. It was purchased from an electronics dealer in China. It wasn’t working at first, but they were able to bring it back to life.
The most striking part of this device, which AppleDemoYT reached, is “stackerHaving a game called ” that was never widely released. It can be seen that this game designed by Apple is similar to Tetris. A kind of Apple’s Tetris we can say.
This is not the only game discovered on the device. In addition to this, there were other games in the prototype with the names Block0 and Klondike, about which not much is known. However, they only managed to get Stacker working.
In the following years, Apple brought many games to the iPod, including licensed Tetris. However, his version never introduced Stacker. Unfortunately, the company has no explanation as to why it never launched.