Tetris - Тетрис - Brick Game

Hey, 
today's story will be simple as it is - t e t r i s.

Yes, we know, a puzzle game from 90'...booooring, some say ;)

Tetris - Тетрис - Brick Game

This game emerged on 1984, it was created on old computer named Elektronika 60 (the text was used to form blocks) .

Here you can see how it would look like to play on ZSRR terminal computer: Электроника 60

Mr Aleksiej Pażytnow with colleagues Dimitrij Pawłowski and Wadim Geriasimow, were basing on old logic game called Pentomino.

The idea is to use falling blocks to build up a puzzle, and not to fail while game is speeding up, and the variations of blocks are causing difficulties in forming even ground.

You can use a prediction, in window aside, there is shown one piece in advance.

I remember this game to be released on almost any platform capable to display falling, or moving blocks (and that is not so obvious for very old machines;))

I used to play it on Atari 800XL, furious 8-bit machine. Damn that was so cool (yet waiting for the game to be loaded from cassette - was not cool).

Then I’ve jumped on 16-bit Commodore Amiga 500, and of course Tetris on Double Density 3.5 inch floppy drive.

Of course one of my favorite PC games on my Pentium II MMX (that was a beast ;)), was a Tetris for PC.

Then I’ve played some Tetris on Game Boy Advance, also with fun.

back in the day, you could also buy a Tetris game on hanheld device (often no-name), with this game only. These were very popular. And what is more astonishing, you can buy it also today, called Brick Game, some featuring also Snake (other great title;))

To be honest, this game never bored me, of course you can find better, or worse versions of this game. Just pick and choose the best.

But it is a part of culture for nineties’, now you can run into all sort of products covering the idea of 1984 game, here are some examples :

Some sort of outfit

a lamp

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