Overview

Number of Players
1 (Single Player)
Genre
Release Date

Virtual Boy

  • US 22nd Mar 1996

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack (Subscription)

  • 17th Feb 2026
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  • Review 3D Tetris (Virtual Boy)

    It’s Tetris. On the Virtual Boy. Again.

    Perhaps one of the strangest things about the Virtual Boy is that it had two Tetris games. OK there are many systems with multiple versions of Tetris but they were around a lot longer than Virtual Boy was. Interestingly--though this would have changed had the system been around longer--each region only got...

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  • Guide Best Virtual Boy Games

    Every Virtual Boy game ranked by you

    Nintendo is an odd company in many ways; deeply appealing and safe in some respects, but also able to swing for the fences and invest money and resources in the pursuit of pure novelty. Time and again it puts out products that no other platform holder would have dreamed of, and more often than not those...

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About The Game

3D Tetris is a video game released for the Virtual Boy in 1996. A Japanese version was planned, to be called Polygo Block, but production of games was ceased due to lack of interest in the Virtual Boy system. This was the last game released on the Virtual Boy.

This version of the game of Tetris uses a three-dimensional playing field as opposed to the traditional two dimensions more generally used. The player not only rotates the playing piece horizontally, but vertically as well which means that the piece has four possible directions in which to move.