Tetris
Sign in to saveTetris () is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sorted into a pile. Once a horizontal line of the playfield is filled with blocks, the line disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from reaching the top. This gameplay has been used in approximately 220 versions across at least 70 platforms. Newer versions frequently add game mechanics, some of which have become standard. , Tetris is the second-best-selling video game series, with ove
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Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s where players arrange falling four-block pieces to complete horizontal lines, which then disappear to earn points and prevent the pile from getting too tall. The game has become one of the best-selling video game series ever, spawning approximately 220 versions across at least 70 different platforms, with newer versions often introducing new gameplay mechanics.
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Key facts
- Video game series.title
- Tetris
- Video game series.image
- Tetris logo 2019.svg
- Video game series.caption
- Logo since 2019
- Video game series.alt
- The word "Tetris", each letter a different color, engraved on a blue, T-shaped tetromino.
- Video game series.creator
- Alexey Pajitnov
- Video game series.platforms
- Various (70 or more)
- Video game series.first release version
- Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)
- Video game series.first release date
- January 27, 1988
- Video game series.latest release version
- Tetris: The Grand Master 4 – Absolute Eye
- Video game series.latest release date
- April 4, 2025
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24 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- History
- Creation (1984–1985)
- Spread beyond the Soviet Union (1985–1988)
- International negotiations (1988–1989)
- Legal battles and aftermath (1989–1993)
- The Tetris Company and Blue Planet Software (1995–2012)
- Maya Rogers' succession and resurgence of popularity (2014–present)
- Versions
- Reception
- Sales
- Accolades
- Legacy
- Industry impact
- Cultural impact
- Research
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Books
- Video documentaries
- Further reading
- External links
Tetris () is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sorted into a pile. Once a horizontal line of the playfield is filled with blocks, the line disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from reaching the top. This gameplay has been used in approximately 220 versions across at least 70 platforms. Newer versions frequently add game mechanics, some of which have become standard. , Tetris is the second-best-selling video game series, with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile devices.
In the mid-1980s, Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences. He initially programmed it in Pascal for the Elektronika 60 in about three weeks, then spent over two months porting it to the IBM PC using Turbo Pascal with help from Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov. Floppy disk copies were distributed freely throughout Moscow before spreading to Eastern Europe. Robert Stein of Andromeda Software saw Tetris in Hungary and contacted the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center to secure a license to release it commercially. Stein sublicensed it to Mirrorsoft in the UK and Spectrum HoloByte in the US. Both companies released Tetris in 1988 to commercial success and sublicensed to additional companies, including Henk Rogers' Bullet-Proof Software. Rogers negotiated with Elektronorgtechnica, the state-owned organization in charge of licensing Soviet software, to license Tetris to Nintendo for the Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES); both versions were released in 1989.