Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Game Boy
- 31st Jul 1989
- 28th Sep 1990
- 14th Jun 1989
3DS eShop
- 22nd Dec 2011, $3.99
- 22nd Dec 2011, £3.60
- 28th Dec 2011, ¥400
Nintendo Switch Online (Subscription)
- 8th Feb 2023
- Also Available On
- Series
- Tags
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review Tetris (3DS eShop / GB)
From Russia with fun
Saying that Tetris shifted a few Game Boys is like saying caffeine sold a few energy drinks. Already an established favourite by the time Nintendo's handheld hit the market in 1989, Tetris proved to be the perfect pick-up-and-play experience to go along with the fledgling portable system; while many people initially questioned...
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Tetris News
Soapbox Game Boy Tetris' True Genius Was Teaching A Generation How To Play Video Games
Building gaming literacy one tetromino at a time
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Tim thinks back on 35 years of Tetris on the Game Boy and considers how it taught a generation — multiple generations, in fact — how to play...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 8th)
Easter gaming
We did it, everyone! We made it through the opening week of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and still live to tell the tale. Yes, this week finally saw the release of the hotly anticipated Nintendo and Illumination co-production and was it worth the wait? Well, sort of. While we certainly had mixed feelings in our review, the stellar box...
Movie Review Tetris - The Blocks Don't Quite Line Up In This Mostly Fun Thriller
Falling into place
When you’re playing a round of Tetris, the Game Boy title from 1989, nothing is more satisfying than when you line up four horizontal rows perfectly, the blocks disappear, and you get that slightly different jingle to tell you that yeah, you did it, good job. It’s addictive and engrossing, and nowadays there are many different...
Soapbox Alone In The Dark On GBC Is A Bizarre Relic You Should Play At Least Once
Be afraid?
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Ollie sits down with the least loved entry in the current Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy library and finds an odd, twisted version of a game he loves... Alone in the Dark: The New...
News The Tetris Movie Falls Onto Apple TV+ In March, Check Out The First Trailer
Falling right into place
The first trailer for the upcoming Tetris movie has fallen into place — and colour us impressed, this looks like it could be a treat. Not only that, we finally have a date for the film, and it releases on 31st March on Apple TV+ (via Entertainment Weekly). The film is a biopic all about the origins of Tetris and how Henk...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 11th)
Primed and ready
Phew - this was a pretty busy week, huh? To kick off the week, we took you through some of the highlights from Nintendo's latest financial report for Q3 of fiscal year 2023. This included the rather stupendous new sales milestone for the Switch, with the console now exceeding Game Boy and PlayStation 4 total sales. We also learned...
Random The GB Interceptor Lets You Stream Gameplay From An Unmodified Game Boy
Tetris on the big screen
There are a variety of ways that you can get footage from a Game Boy game up onto a big screen. An emulator can easily step in to do the job or a modern-day variant like the Analogue Pocket might be more up your street with its HDMI output. But what if you wanted to stream from an original Game Boy, and an unmodded one at...
Video What Was Your First Video Game Ever?
Go on and tell us!
Depending on how long you've been gaming, whether or not you remember your very first video game might be a surprisingly tricky question to answer. Some of you in our lovely Nintendo Life community may be on the younger side, in which case your first game could have been from the GameCube era, or perhaps even the Wii. Others, of...
Random Talented Hackers Are Adding Vibrant Colour To Classic Game Boy Titles
Colour us impressed!
The humble Game Boy was an absolute marvel back in the day. Released prior to the SNES, the handheld system seemed positively futuristic when compared to the decidedly bulkier NES / Famicom. Looking at it today, however, there are plenty of noticeable drawbacks that have been ironed out considerably in the decades since with...
News The Tetris Company "Stands With Ukraine"
And is "deeply saddened by the ongoing crisis"
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has put the spotlight on Russia and everything related to it – and, for many gamers, the most famous Russian export of all is the puzzler Tetris, which helped turn the Game Boy into a global success story in the early '90s. While The Tetris Company – founded by Henk...
About The Game
The classic puzzle game by Alexei Pazhitnov, considered to be the defining game on the Game Boy!
Tetris gives you a screen which slowly fills up with "Tetrads" made up of four blocks in various shapes. You have to move and rotate the blocks so they form solid rows across the screen, whereupon the row will vanish and you will score points. Clearing more than one row at a time will net you a bonus multiplier. If the screen fills up with blocks then the game ends.
In Game A you play endlessly for high scores. Acquiring a large high score may net you one of several rocket animations available. The better your score, the bigger the rocket that takes off.
Game B requires you to clear a certain number of lines in order to win the game. You can increase the number of lines you need to clear, making the game longer.
For both games you can increase the number of blocks already on the screen when you start, as well as the speed. There are three kinds of music to choose from as well. If you have a Game Boy Link Cable you can play a multiplayer game, where indestructable rows of blocks rise from the bottom of the screen when your opponent clears lines.
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Amazing Game! So good I have 2 copies! my hi is 175000.
Such a wonderful game! I remember being jealous that my younger cousin Amy got her shiny new GameBoy one Christmas and my parents couldn't afford one... I was so jealous! ;-/ She had this monochrome Tetris game up on there and I grew to love puzzles because of playing Tetris. This game is a definite 10/10 and is a must have for any old school GB/NES/puzzle fanatic.
Absolutly great game, I had it when I was a kid, and now I bought it again in a retro store, a fundamental game in the history of videogames.
yeah, that's a real classic. Have 2 copies too, one on a multicart, and played it with the cable link. Just awesome.
Addictive-ly puzzling....as in can't put it down fun.
GAMEBOY! DON'T FORGET YO TETRIS!
A game that works very well on the GB. Will probably buy it when it comes out just for some Tetris to play when I'm about. This GB version is nothing special - but it's all it needs to be.
I think this is the best version of the game - barebones, nothing it shouldn't be and everything it should. I never really liked all those new Tetris variations, so I might give this a shot when it comes out. ;]
An essential addition to the Virtual Console.
This one really brings back memories.
€4 ???? they sould have made this a free chritmas download.
No... No North American release date?
;_;
If this is released in NA I won't need to jug Axis around!
Surprised they're not giving us the DX version despite this is the original.
A cult puzzle game!
Grabbed it today. It's so great to play the original
@13
True dat. They got Link's Awakening DX on the shop, but they can't get Tetris DX on the damn thing?
I don't hav tetris DS or Party Live, so I'll get this!
I can't get it on my 3DS because it got delisted in the end of 2014
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