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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Video game series Tetris Tetris -like games have been created on a large variety of platforms, including TI-83 series graphical calculators. Genre(s) Puzzle Developer(s) "Various" with supervisor for The Tetris Company Publisher(s) Various Creator(s) Alexey Pajitnov Platform(s) Various ...
Tetris is primarily composed of a field of play in which pieces of different geometric forms, called tetrominoes, [b] descend from the top of the field. [2] During this descent, the player can move the pieces laterally and rotate them until they touch the bottom of the field or land on a piece that had been placed before it. [3]
As a variation of the Tetris concept, rather than having the objective of filling horizontal lines of blocks that descend from the top of the screen as tetrominos, the player matches the colors of the descending blocks (which include irregular tetromino shapes) to blocks already fixed on the game board, which causes blocks to disappear from the board when three blocks of the same color are ...
The game features two gameplay styles: standard Tetris and BomBliss. In BomBliss, falling pieces contain bombs. Each piece may contain no bombs, one bomb, or be entirely made of bombs. When rows of the playfield are filled, they do not disappear as in other games; the bombs within the row explode depending on how many rows are fil
[1] [2] Tetrominoes, like dominoes and pentominoes, are a particular type of polyomino. The corresponding polycube, called a tetracube, is a geometric shape composed of four cubes connected orthogonally. A popular use of tetrominoes is in the video game Tetris created by the Soviet game designer Alexey Pajitnov, which refers to them as ...
Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris , a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems.
Tetris Classic is a puzzle video game in which pieces consisting of four squares in seven shapes descend into an empty pit. [1] [2] As the pieces fall, the player can move the pieces laterally and rotate them until they land either on the bottom of the pit or on another piece.
Gameplay was nearly identical in gameplay to other Tetris titles, but with a new soundtrack. Players also had the ability to create their own soundtrack for the game using the music library of the iPhone or iPod Touch device on which the game is being played. The game offered two modes of play dubbed "Marathon" mode and "Magic" mode. [2]