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Tetris
Published 1986
Published by
Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
Released
1987
Also For
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, BBC
Micro, Commodore 64, Electron, Macintosh, MSX, TRS-80 CoCo, ZX Spectrum
Genre
Strategy
Theme
Puzzle-Solving, Real-Time
Description
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.
From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
Identifier msdos_Tetris_1986
Emulator dosbox
Emulator_ext zip
Emulator_start Tetris86/tetris.com
Mediatype software
Scanner Internet Archive Python library 0.7.5
Year 1986
Publicdate 2014-12-27 00:49:05
Addeddate 2014-12-27 00:49:05
Date 1986
Mobygames http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/tetris
Reviews
Reviewer:
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January 20, 2015
Subject: Error
Subject: Error
There appears to be an error in this entry. The present version of Tetris is the one released by British software house Andromeda, not Spectrum Holobyte. The one by Spectrum Holobyte, which was more widespread, had dazzling background graphics depicting various Russia-related scenes.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#History
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#History
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