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Tetris

Tetris is a Windows port of the game included as part of the first Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack, and later re-released as part of Microsoft's Best Of Windows Entertainment Pack.

31 December 1990

Tetris is a puzzle developed by Microsoft, released 31 December 1990 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tetris is

Tetris is a puzzle game developed by Microsoft and released in 1990. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tetris is a Windows port of the game included as part of the first Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack, and later re-released as part of Microsoft's Best Of Windows Entertainment Pack.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tetris series

Tetris is the 20th of 145 entries we hold in the Tetris series. It arrived 9 months after FA Tetris. The next entry was Tetris Game Watch in 1990.

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What it launched against

Tetris launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.

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When did Tetris come out?
Tetris was released on 31 December 1990 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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