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Tetris

Developer: Alexey Pajitnov [Алексе́й Па́житнов]
1986
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Players must guide randomly selected tetromino-shaped blocks called "Tetriminos" down a matrix and form complete horizontal lines to keep the blocks from piling to the top.
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One of the only objectively perfect games in existence since it's just a simple puzzle with a closed system. Tetris is beautiful philosophically and ideologically. The only foe you have here is your own lack of imagination and its almost zen-like quality makes it a standard for hardcore and wide audiences alike. Who would've thought Soviet's best export of the Orwellian 1984 would be a video game to resonate with generations?

My favourite versions to play are the DOS one and the NES one which has a magical chiptune rendition of The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. I never was one of those Gameboy people.
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Tetris is the purest intersection between art, play, and geometry. Even though games like Resident Evil 4, Mario 64 and We Love Katamari top my games list, Tetris is one of those unspoken things where it's almost moot to bring it up.
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I think the Game Boy came with it or something because everyone had it and you could play it with the "link" system (ooh, that brings me back). Your cleared lines were transfered to the other player, such a fun game mode that I haven't played or even heard of since. Believe it or not, kids payed money to play the arcade as well, but, in my case, it was mostly because Street Fighter 2 had a much longer queue. But sometimes that game would be available and I'd be like "I'm good", and stayed with Tetris for a while. That's something.

Anyway, it's insane how this little puzzle game is still going fairly strong 30+ years later.
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i have tetris'd
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You can play it for free and everyone loves it what more is there to say
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Hard to complain about this classic. The gameplay and music were nearly flawless at the time and it is still a very enjoyable game. Almost all of my gripes are minor. Being on Game Boy, it is black and white and old school pixelated. This game is often considered one of the best and most addictive games ever made and in my opinion, the best falling block game created with only The New Tetris on 64 coming close. The game is simple enough for anyone to pick it up. Tetris appears here in nearly its original form; no extra additions or new rules. There are two game settings, one where you try to get a set number on lines while building the largest score. Obviously Tetris's are worth the most. The other game mode is an open ended play. In both modes, you can select the speed at which the blocks fall. The faster they fall, the more point you get for completing lines. Three classic Tetris tunes accompany the game as well.

Tetris is the king of puzzle games and the Game Boy version sits atop all versions I have played. The Game Boy did allow two player gameplay here with the link cable. The result is one of the best two player games on the Game Boy. You can play against a friend, adding a portable, two-player version of Tetris unmatched by any other Tetris version of the time. This made road trips as a youngster much more bearable. This is probably the best game I have played on the Game Boy.
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  • HardBloodNelza 2022-10-18 23:14:11.2214+00
    holy fuck its tetris the falling block puzzle game [2]
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  • Miry 2022-11-09 14:10:52.757583+00
    people will still be playing this 500 years from now. can you say that for most games?
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  • iMiscellaneous 2022-12-08 15:10:42.523646+00
    Literally impossible to have a game be better than this. What KJV is to books Tetris is to video games.

    Although I always wonder why Tetris is super high and other puzzle games aren't. Like of Bejewled or Puyo or Colums were released in 1984 instead of Tetris would we be hailing those as the best game ever? I don'r think so. There's something about Tetris inheritly better.
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    • Miry 2023-02-01 17:59:10.822362+00
      i think it's just because people view those games as cheap knockoffs - even if a game like columns improves on almost everything about tetris. however, tetris just feels complete on its own and is just, like you say, inherently better for whatever reason.
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  • ZinestheticLuminescence 2022-12-11 01:53:42.534718+00
    Those structures with three linear connected blocks with one adjacent block sticking out are complete assholes.
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    • phatphootphungus 2023-03-12 22:09:12.913869+00
      I think they can def be useful sometimes
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  • Diugo 2023-03-16 16:37:04.72918+00
    This game will forever be fun.
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  • JGar40 2023-03-20 20:45:43.52491+00
    Maybe not the Famicom version but I feel like this is the only game I would actually call literally perfect.
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