Produced by Gunpei Yokoi, "Tetris Attack" was released as "Panel de Pon" in Japan, featuring fairies as the main characters with a mythical, fantasy setting. International versions instead replace these with characters and settings from "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island". Though international releases have the name "Tetris Attack", the game bears no relation to the "Tetris" video game series, leading Tetris Company co-founder Henk Rogers to regret giving Nintendo the license to use the name. Both "Panel de Pon" and "Tetris Attack" were later broadcast through the Japan-only Satellaview peripheral, the latter renamed to .