Rotate and fit the falling pieces to complete lines before the stack reaches the top. A tribute to arcade Tetris, free in your browser and on your phone.
Move the piece left and right, rotate it and let it drop to complete horizontal lines, which disappear. Clearing four at once is worth far more than one at a time. Every 8 lines you go up a level: pieces fall faster and points are multiplied. As in the arcade, there is no hard drop and no ghost piece.
Tetris was born in 1984 in Moscow: Alexey Pajitnov wrote it at the Soviet Academy of Sciences computing centre, on an Elektronika 60 computer that could only display text. The pieces are tetrominoes, shapes made of four squares, and the name blends “tetra” (four) with “tennis”, its author’s favourite sport.
In 1988 it reached the arcades. Atari Games released its cabinet and Sega its own in Japan, where it was a phenomenon for years. The rules of those arcade machines were simple and tough: the next piece on show, no hard drop, no holding pieces, and a speed that shows no mercy.
In 1989 Nintendo bundled it with the Game Boy, and that handheld version made it one of the best-known games in the world. It has since appeared on almost every console, computer and phone.
This is an original implementation following the 1988 arcade rules: a 10×20 well, next-piece preview, rotation both ways with no wall kicks, no hard drop, no ghost piece and no hold. Points are multiplied by the level, and clearing the whole board multiplies the move by ten. On mobile it plays full screen with large buttons.
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This page is a tribute with an original implementation. “Tetris” is a registered trademark of The Tetris Company; this version is not affiliated with or endorsed by its owners.
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