Tetris

Description

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.

Alternate Titles

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Falling block puzzles
• Tetris licensees
• Video games turned in to board/card games

Merchant Title Platform Price   TETRIS: The Soviet Challenge (Macintosh - 3.5" Disk) Macintosh $7.99   Tetris DOS     Tetris     Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

Tetris owns!	DOS	Maw (827)
Not the greatest playability, but the best music	Commodore 64	WWWWolf (391)

The Press Says

MikroBitti	Amiga	Apr 01, 1988		100
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Mar, 1988	90 out of 100	90
Defunct Games	WonderSwan Color	Jul 05, 2009	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Jun, 1988	70 out of 100	70
Defunct Games	CD-i	Sep 09, 2006	70 out of 100	70
The Video Game Critic	CD-i	Jul 02, 2002	B-	67
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1991	29 out of 100	29

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Trivia

The word "Tetris" comes from the ancient Greek "tetra", which means "four".