Tetris
28K plays 1987 #Puzzle
Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris, a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems. Tetris received positive reviews overall, winning multiple Excellence in Software Awards, and would eventually sell over one million copies.
From Wikipedia's article Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
5.0 Outstanding!
Zzap!64 98% · 1 review
Review scorecard
- Graphics 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 5.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Zzap!64 98% · 1 review. Overall source The same 98/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordschallengingaddictivestrategiceasy
What the critics said
Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World the same year, and said that "Tetris is simple in concept, simple to play, and a unique design".
— Computer Gaming World, 1988
Macworld praised its strategic gameplay, stating that "Tetris offers the rare combination of being simple to learn but extremely challenging to play", and also praising the inclusion of the Desk Accessory version, which uses less RAM.
— Macworld
Macworld summarized their review by listing Tetris' pros and cons, stating that Tetris is "elegant; easy to play; challenging and addicting; requires quick thinking, long-term strategy, and lightning reflexes" and listed Tetris' cons as "None".
— Macworld, 1988
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- AllGame C64: 3/5 ; Macintosh: 4/5 (other versions)
- Zzap!64 98%
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
Players' rating: 59/100 · 85 votes
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