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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NES Archives	May 20, 2008	A-	91
All Game Guide	1998		90
Power Play	Aug, 1990	89 out of 100	89
Game Freaks 365	2006	8.9 out of 10	89
Random Access	Jun 26, 2008	8 out of 10	80
The Video Game Critic	Mar 10, 2000	B	75

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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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