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Tetris Fact: Tetris is considered the most popular
computer game in history.
Did You Mean "Tetris" as in...
- Free Tetris Games
- Tetris Tournaments and Community
- The History of Tetris
- Tetris Tips, Tools and Fun
- Commercial Tetris Games
Free Tetris Games
| Tetris Love - Tetris Love has a long list of free, browser based Tetris games. There is a short review of each game, which
are ranked in order of popularity. The Tetris games here were created with Java or Shockwave and have been tested on both
Macintosh and Windows systems. |
Hive - Hive has a nice collection of shareware Tetris games. Included are a cool 3D Tetris and other unusual versions
of the game. |
Search Amateur - Search Amateur has a fairly large number of Tetris games. You can either play them online or download the demos/games
for free. In some cases there is a fee for the full game. Includes 3D games and networked tournament play. |
Tetris-Top - Tetris-Top has great links to free and demo Tetris games. The site includes a five cube rating system and a short
review of each game. |
Tetris for Palms - A free, downloadable Tetris Game for your Palm Pilot. |
Tetris Tournaments and Community
| Tetrinet.org - Tetrinet is a free, Tetris style tournament game with a very active community. It is usually easy to find a game
to join. Tetrinet is played with up to six players and fast, competitive gameplay. Special blocks that fall in the game allow
a player to effect an opponent's game in different ways. |
NetTETRIS - NetTETRIS is a tournament game with a moderately active community. Free to download, NetTETRIS is played very
much like traditional Tetris, but against one other player. Whenever one player clears a line, a line of jumbled blocks is
added to the other player's game. |
ICQ Interest Groups - NetTETRIS - ICQ Interest Groups provides a list of NetTetris groups who are looking for more members. Group member information
and photos are often provided to help players chose which group they would like to join. |
The History of Tetris
| Tetris: The Story - 'Tetris: The Story' is a very useful site. It includes not only the story of the invention of the Tetris game,
written by one of the inventors, Vadim Gerasimov, but it also has a lot of interesting links such as a copy of the original
Tetris game for download and a page of news about Tetris. |
The Tetris Saga - The Tetris Saga is the story of how Tetris gained it's enormous popularity. It includes a interesting retelling
of the legal wrangling that went on and the battle between Tengen and Nintendo for the rights to the game. |
The Coin-op Museum - The Coin-op museum has information and some great photos of coin-op Tetris games from the late 1980s. |
Pandora's Box - Pandora's Box is the most recent game from the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov. It was voted Puzzle Game of
the Year in 1999. |
Blinkenlights Arcade - This is very cool. Blinkenlights has created several huge installations of classic arcade games using the room
lights of entire buildings. Viewers were able to play the games, including Tetris, using their Cell phones. |
Tetris Tips, Tools and Fun
| Tetris Tips - A useful list of tips for playing Tetris. |
The Tetris Taxonomy - The Tetris Taxonomy has many useful tips and tricks, as well as a large selection of articles both serious and
tongue-in-cheek about playing the game. Note: Non-traditional, sexual slang is sometimes used on this site when talking about
the Tetris blocks and moves. |
Tetris Quirkies - From the TetrisTop site, Tetris Quirkies are a list of interesting Tetris tools and facts such as information
about the largest and smallest Tetris games ever played. |
Commercial Tetris Games
| Tetris Worlds - TetrisWorlds is a very popular commercial version of Tetris. It is available for PC, Game Boy Advanced, GameCube,
XBox and PS2. You can buy them here, direct from the manufacter. |
Tetris Source Code - If you are interested in creating your own Tetris game, you can buy the Tetris source code here. |
Puzzle Central - Puzzle Central has a very large collection of commercial Tetris Games. |
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