Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s. Players arrange falling pieces made of four connected blocks, called tetrominoes, into complete horizontal…
Tetris is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 1 November 1989 on Nintendo Entertainment System. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Tetris is
Tetris is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1989. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tetris is a 1989 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Based on Tetris (1985) by Alexey Pajitnov, it was released after a legal battle between Nintendo and Atari Games, who had previously released a console port outside of the terms of their Tetris license. Bullet-Proof Software had previously released Tetris for the Family Computer in December 1988, while Nintendo had released Tetris for the Game Boy earlier in 1989.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tetris series
Tetris is the 15th of 145 entries we hold in the Tetris series. The next entry was Tetris in 1989.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tetris yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Quick answers
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