Tetris (1987)

Box front of Tetris (1987)

Details

Released
1987
Developer
Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
Publisher
Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
Genre
Puzzle / Falling block puzzle
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Commercial
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Included in the pack (PDF)

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Screenshots

Title screen of Tetris (1987)
Title screen
Gameplay of Tetris (1987)
Gameplay

About this game

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.

Also known as

ТетрисCyrillic
Tetris: The Soviet ChallengeDOS

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