The original commercially-licensed version of Alexey Pajitnov's classic Tetris puzzle game. Geometric shapes fall from the top of a playfield to rest on the bottom; fit the pieces together, and the line they form disappears. If the pieces don't form lines and eventually stack up to the top of the playfield, the game is over. Difficulty increases by dropping the pieces faster and faster over time.

Tetris is a verifiable classic game, translated to well over 200 electronic and computer platforms. It takes 2 minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master.

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Alternate Titles

"Тетрис" -- Cyrillic spelling
"Tetris: The Soviet Challenge" -- DOS title
"テトリス" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

It's fun that lasts.	optrirominiluikus (112)
So ... many ... falling ... blocks ...	Kartanym (9944)
Simple, yet addictive as hell, if you are into this sort of games	Unicorn B. Lynx (53162)
A classic must-have for the gameboy.	Jim Fun (226)	unrated

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The Press Says

VideoGame	Jun, 1991		100
Retrogaming.it	Feb 19, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	May 01, 2005	9 out of 10	90

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Trivia

Included in the original DOS commercial release package was a memory-resident version of Tetris, with graphical backgrounds and all. It took up over 50K of precious DOS RAM, but you could play Tetris instantly from within any application.

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