I’m pretty sure that this game is no longer being published due to an expired license that The Tetris Company refuses to renew. You don’t really think a game like Tetris suffers price pressure, do you? It practically epitomizes the ‘classic’ game you talk about in the article. People would absolutely pay full price for it if it was currently available, so it really shouldn’t be lumped in with Excite Truck.
Considering that Nintendo originally got the Tetris license from the Soviet Union in the height of the Cold War, if Nintendo really wanted that Tetris license, they would have it.
They apparently don’t want to renew it for whatever reason.