Tetris: Difference between revisions

First released in 1985, '''Tetris''' products or other programs implementing the same game rules have appeared on nearly every video game console, computer operating system, graphing calculator, mobile phone, and PDA ever released, as well as the lighting systems for a couple of ''buildings'' (its simplicity makes porting it very easy). By far, however, the most famous and popular version was released on the Nintendo [[Game Boy]] in 1989, bundled with the system upon its release (and becoming its [[Killer App]] at the same time). The first of that version's three musical options, a Russian folk song called "[[wikipedia:Korobeiniki|Korobeiniki]]" (although the game just referred to it as "Music A"), has become an [[Standard Snippet|iconic]] (and [[Ear Worm|catchy]]) piece of video game music.

 

 

 

 

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** Amusingly, Bastet does ''not'' simply give you the worst possible piece for your situation - if it did, it could give you a sequence of pieces that is impossible to clear.

** Averted in the original. Early players complained that the computer was cheating and refusing to drop the one piece they needed. Pajitnov added the "Statistics" bars at the side of the screen to prove that the game was fair over the long term.

* [[Difficulty by Acceleration]]

* [[Endless Game]]: Many Tetris ports come with several modes, one of which (usually "Type A") is this (the others are aversions requiring you to clear a specific number of lines).

** Also, in Marathon Mode of Tetris DS, while the previous 4 levels play a "Hurry Up!" for their melody, the final level (Level 20) changes the music one last time into [[Crowning Music of Awesome|an awesome remix of the classic Tetris music.]]

* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Most iterations of the game.

*** Tetris Plus involved trying to clear the floor so that a gem-hunting archeologist could get to the exit and treasures at the bottom before the slowly-descending spikes reached his head. That's it.

* [[Nostalgia Filter]] + [[Complaining About People Not Liking the Show]]: Some people will look at you funny if you don't think the NES and Game Boy versions are the best ''Tetris'' games of all time.

* [[The Tetris Effect]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Up to Eleven]]: One of the numerous spinoff games out there is called "[[Not Tetris]]", which ramps things up by adding a [[Physics Engine]] into the game. Even if you do manage to properly align a Tetrimino, it'll bounce around before it settles.

* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]: ''Welltris'', also created by Alexey Pajitnov. Notable that it did it without [[Polygonal Graphics]].

** The slightly obscure ''Tetrisphere'' also was this, and is a surprisingly good game, though gameplay admittedly matches up little with conventional ''Tetris''.

 

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