Digital Eclipse has announced that the next entry in its Gold Master Series, Tetris Forever, will land on Switch on 12th November.
In case you missed the announcement of this one back in August's Partner Showcase, Tetris Forever is a trip down memory lane for one of gaming's most iconic franchises. The compilation pulls together 15 different Tetris games from an authentic recreation of the first version to an all-new variant called 'Tetris Time Warp'.
In true Digital Eclipse fashion, the games themselves are just part of the appeal. Tetris Forever also presents a "virtual museum" for the series, featuring archival materials and over 90 minutes of new documentary footage. Basically, if you want to learn about Tetris, this will be the place to do it.
You'll find a rundown of the compilation's key features and a handful of screenshots below:
The Game that Started It All: Digital Eclipse has prepared an authentic recreation of the first version of Tetris, which Alexey Pajitnov created on a Soviet “Electronika 60” computer system. Experience the look and feel of Tetris as Alexey envisioned it in 1984.
Interactive Timelines: Explore a virtual museum with archival materials, including video featurettes, photos, original ads, and playable games restored in high-definition and presented chronologically.
The True Story of Tetris: With over 90 minutes of all-new documentary featurettes produced by Area 5—creators of Outerlands, Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us and Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II — explore the true story of Tetris in its purest form.
An All-New Tetris Game: Tetris Time Warp, an all-new Tetris variant by Digital Eclipse, will have up to four players warping between different eras of Tetris in real time to experience a variety of memorable graphic styles and play mechanics!
Digital Eclipse has revealed that more titles may be added to the collection at or shortly after its launch. We currently know 14 of the games we can expect to see and we'll be keeping an eye out over the coming weeks for any sign of more.
Will you be slotting this one into your collection next month? Let us know in the comments.
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I'm still to continue hassling Wade until there's a physical release. Weird that Gold Masters doesn't considering they're Atari's highest profile releases now. Lord knows Yars isn't...
Nice, waiting to see if this gets a physical release or not (my usual retailer here in Italy seemingly has it for preorder, but for a generic end of next year so it could change), but eventually I'll get it for sure - there's no way I'd get it on the announced release date even without that as there are way too many games coming out these months as is!
So ... we'll have to wait sometimes next year for the physical version ... ?
So I guess Limited Run Games will be publishing the physical, eh?
I'm gonna wait and see if they add Tetris Plus games to this as the other games don't interest me, neither does the museum aspect given how The Tetris Company is the same company that changed the origin date of Tetris back in 2009 just because they felt like running a 25th anniversary campaign that year, so who knows if anything in the museum part of this collection will be in any way accurate to the history of Tetris
Fingers crossed for the Tengen version to be added! That one has to be, like, the holy grail addition now, right?
Man if only this was actually 2 days later to be on my birthday. Would make me want to get this a lot more than Dragon Quest 3 Remake (just haven't really gotten into the series yet)
Oh, so there may still be a chance for Tetris Plus. I'd really like to see it again, whether it be in this game or released within Arcade Archives.
14 titles confirmed, and the fact that at least a few more titles will be added in the future is a beautiful thing to see. Love when developers do this.
When this collection was first announced, I was bummed and confused as to why Gameboy and NES Tetris weren’t included, but forgot those were developed/done by Nintendo. So that wasn’t going to happen.
Shame Tetris DS and Tetris Axis aren’t here either, but it’s the same those those as well, with Nintendo properties involved.
Count me in as one of those that would love to see the Tengen version included as well in the future. Any versions of Tetris that they can get their hands on to include later on (Nintendo developed/published aside), the better.
Like the Cowabunga Collection, I really, REALLY hope they were able to include high resolution scans of all the original game boxes, full manuals, magazines advertisements, promotional materials, etc, as I don’t own any of the original releases. LOVE stuff like this!
This is a definite yes. A game that worth the money for replay value. If get a physical will be preordering. Already pre ordered physical of worms Armageddon this studio making some great games. Amazing graphics aren't everything . Some the best games I played and thought wow in last few years streets of rage 4 brutally hard towards end for me anyway. That 16bit racing game think something overdrive. Retro remakes way to go want the shredder revenge game to play
@LadyCharlie bloody well hope not. Already got yakusa a game I was looking forward to . Now realize I won't be playing less already on any playstation 4-1 hant looked into yet
Way too much Tetris for me. If you've played one, you've basically played them all.
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