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Tetris

Tetris

Tetris

1984
Puzzle, Strategy
Tetris (In Russian: ??????) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. (TheGamesDB)
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Puzzle, Strategy

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Windows, iOS, macOS, MS-DOS, Sega Genesis, NES, Arcade, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Phillips CD-i

Developers:

Sega, Nintendo R&D1, Spectrum HoloByte, Philips, Bullet-Proof Software, AcademySoft, Elorg, Andromeda Software, Rowan Software, Sphere, Sanritsu Denki, SoMa Play, ZCT Systems

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Sega, Nintendo, Spectrum HoloByte, Infogrames, Philips, Bullet-Proof Software, Mirrorsoft, AcademySoft, Tandy, W!Games
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Tetris

1984
Puzzle, Strategy
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Average Percentile: 57.97%
beedubBeeDub
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14 Aug 2020
92
84th
come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece come on long piece
14 Aug 2020
billyshearsBillyShears
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14 Jan 2018
90
94th
My hemorrhoids were built by Tetris on the toilet.
14 Jan 2018
mattorama12mattorama12
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15 Jan 2018
80
76th
The game that literally invades your mind.
15 Jan 2018
thedicemanTheDiceman
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02 Mar 2018
85
88th
Legendary puzzle game.
02 Mar 2018
cmonsterCMonster
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31 Jan 2018
90
86th
Tetras is Russian. Russian's were communists. Communism was critiqued by George Orwell's landmark novel 1984. Tetras was made in 1984. Coincudence? I think not! *cue X-Files music*
31 Jan 2018
velvet_croweVelvet Crowe
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17 Jan 2018
91
95th
A timeless classic! Extremely simple, but anyone who masters this game deserves all the props in the world. This is a game people will be playing for decades in the future, and then some.
17 Jan 2018
hellboy76hellboy76
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15 Jan 2018
96
98th
A simple concept made so playable it was painful.
15 Jan 2018
overratedoverrated
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14 Jan 2018
70
68th
Every game turns into a more and more desperate wait for that long vertical shape to turn up.
14 Jan 2018
cosmicmonkeyCosmicMonkey
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13 Jan 2018
90
91st
The simplest, most addicting game ever made.
13 Jan 2018
croweycrowey
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17 Nov 2021
100
99th
It is the perfect game.
17 Nov 2021
janusjanus
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01 Nov 2021
100
96th
Video games would have stopped here If I Was In Charge, everything since has been about giving children schizophrenia for profit.
01 Nov 2021
antonio_pAntonio P
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24 Oct 2019
60
64th
Good game. I never ends but it's a puzzle game where puzzles should be.
24 Oct 2019
jerkyJerky
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24 Oct 2019
85
64th
In Soviet Russia....blocks break you!
24 Oct 2019
badfurdayBadFurDay
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23 Sep 2019
5
47th
Well, it's tetris. Played a lot of it when it was the only fun game on my Apple II.
23 Sep 2019
lachapellelachapelle
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17 Aug 2019
90
88th
This is the simple puzzle video game that launched the handheld video game craze. It may not be as relevant today as it once was, but few games can suck you in for hours. Another Benchmark to judge all other puzzle video games against.
17 Aug 2019
bradescouBradescou
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08 May 2019
75
33rd
Overrated
08 May 2019
vv238vv238
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24 Oct 2018
79
84th
This game is so simple but so addicting. I think it taps into some lizard-part of your brain that likes to see things clean and orderly.
24 Oct 2018
bobblesBobbles
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15 Jun 2018
51
33rd
A classic time-waster. I wonder how popular it would've been as an MMO.
15 Jun 2018
maddogmaddog
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06 May 2018
82
73rd
Is Tetris fun? Of course, but no matter how you slice it, it's blocks falling. No narrative, just a basic mental puzzle. So some people love and adore it. I find value in it, but I can't rate it super high because it's simple.
06 May 2018
heliophageHeliophage
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05 Apr 2018
50
25th
Diverting in bursts. I do feel a bit sorry for Alexey Pajitnov for all the times he's tried to recapture the lightning with something like Hatris or "Faces... 'tris 3".
05 Apr 2018
dunbardunbar
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22 Feb 2018
92
60th
A complete classic. Fond memories of it are deeply entrenched in my childhood and also in adolescence when a friend would play the theme on piano accordian... oh and also from a few weeks ago when I was watching Tetris speedruns. Timeless.
22 Feb 2018
gnalkhereGnalkhere
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07 Feb 2018
75
29th
I mean....what's not to love?
07 Feb 2018
drevenantDrevenant
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05 Feb 2018
92
66th
THE puzzle video game. I've sunk many hours into trying to improve my score on the NES version of Tetris.
05 Feb 2018
mentaculusMentaculus
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04 Feb 2018
83
79th
Getting passed Level 20 on my Gameboy was a modern-day Right of Passage.
04 Feb 2018
redshift338RedShift338
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03 Feb 2018
74
76th
Nice puzzle game. You could play for hours. . . or even days.
03 Feb 2018
ytadelYtadel
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28 Jan 2018
7
82nd
Simple, fast-paced addiction that tests the brain and the reflexes alike, though at risk of being controversial I will admit it's not my own personal favorite game of this type.
28 Jan 2018
martrynmartryn
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25 Jan 2018
60
16th
Long car trips meant Gameboy and Tetris when I was a kid. A game that even my adult relatives were excited to play. I was never more than mildly interested in this time waster, but the music sure is catchy as hell.
25 Jan 2018
auritechauritech
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23 Jan 2018
96
0th
Not much I can say about this game that hasn't already been said so I'll say one thing you probably don't know: the very original Famicom version of this game, not the one Nintendo did but the Bulletproof Software original, is terrible. But I have the original Game Boy version, which is really the definitive version for most people, and that one is untouchable.
23 Jan 2018
philamentalphilamental
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16 Jan 2018
96
97th
Is tetris the greatest video game of all time? It's certainly in the conversation. The first ever time I played a game that sounded incredibly dull yet proved to be fun and amazingly addictive. Very simple to pick up and play, but like the true classics it's very difficult to master. I still enjoy a quick game of tetris every now and then. It's simply one of the all-timers that everyone should play at least once.
16 Jan 2018
jschlanskyJSchlansky
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15 Jan 2018
80
86th
I got so good at this in my high school journalism class because my teacher was retiring and didn't want to do any work.
15 Jan 2018
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