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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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Tetris
	Tetris 2	Game Boy	$5.99
	GYROMITE	NES	$1.45
	Mario Bros	NES	$15.99
	Pinball	NES	$0.24
	NES \| NINJA GAIDEN II	NES	$2.99
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User Reviews

Tetris owns!	DOS	Maw (828)
Gorby's gift to gamers everywhere!	NES	PCGamer77 (3026)
It's fun that lasts.	Game Boy	optrirominiluikus (112)
Not the greatest playability, but the best music	Commodore 64	WWWWolf (350)
So ... many ... falling ... blocks ...	Game Boy	Kartanym (9970)
Simple, yet addictive as hell, if you are into this sort of games	Game Boy	JazzOleg (53181)
A classic must-have for the gameboy.	Game Boy	Jim Fun (226)

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The Press Says

MikroBitti	Amiga	Apr 01, 1988		100
VideoGame	Game Boy	Jun, 1991		100
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Game Boy	May 01, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Retrogaming.it	Game Boy	Feb 19, 2008	9 out of 10	90
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Mar, 1988	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	NES	Aug, 1990	89 out of 100	89
Game Freaks 365	NES	2006	8.9 out of 10	89
Random Access	NES	Jun 26, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Jun, 1988	70 out of 100	70
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1991	29 out of 100	29

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Trivia

The NES version of Tetris was available in two different releases, one by Tengen and one by Nintendo. After an extensive legal battle, it was decided Tengen did not have the rights to distribute Tetris for the NES and was ordered to cease distribution of the game. All of the unsold copies are believed to have been destroyed making the Tengen release of Tetris one of the more uncommon NES games (which is unfortunate since the Tengen release is usually considered the better of the two.)

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