Tetris

Tetris
North American NES cover art
Developer(s)	List AcademySoft (MS-DOS/TRS-80) Bullet Proof Software (Japanese computers) Elorg Andromeda Software (C64/ZX) Philips (CD-i) Rowan Software (European computers) Spectrum HoloByte (North American computers/ZX) Sphere, Inc. (AIIgs) Sanritsu Denki (MD) Sega (Japanese arcade) SoMa Play (Tetris Ultimate) ZCT Systems (TRS-80)
Publisher(s)	List EU: Infogrames EU: Mirrorsoft (Home Computers) EU/NA: Nintendo (NES) EU/NA: Philips NA: AcademySoft (MS-DOS) NA: Spectrum HoloByte NA: Tandy JP: Bullet Proof Software (Home computers) JP: Sega (AC/MD) JP: W!Games KR: DR Korea (AC)
Designer(s)	Alexey Pajitnov Vladimir Pokhilko
Platform(s)	Electronika 60 Acorn Electron Amiga Amstrad CPC Amstrad PCW Apple II Apple IIgs Atari ST Arcade BBC Micro CD-i Commodore VIC-20 Commodore 64 FM-7 Game Boy Game Boy Color Mac OS MSX NES PC-8801 PC-9801 Mega Drive MS-DOS TRS-80 CoCo WonderSwan Color X68000 ZX Spectrum
Release date(s)	June 6, 1984 Elektronica 60 USSR: June 6, 1984 MS-DOS NA: 1986 IBM PC NA: 1986 Amstrad PCW EU: 1987 ZX Spectrum EU: 1987 Amiga EU: 1987 NA: 1988 Atari ST EU: 1987 NA: 1989 MSX EU: 1987 JP: 1988 TRS-80 CoCo NA: 1987 PC-9801 JP: November 18, 1988 X68000 JP: November 18, 1988 FM-7 JP: November 1988 PC-8801 JP: November 1988 Family Computer JP: December 22, 1988 NES NA: November 1989 EU: February 23, 1990 Acorn Electron EU: 1988 Amstrad CPC EU: 1988 BBC Micro EU: 1988 Commodore 64 EU: 1988 Apple II NA: 1988 Apple IIgs NA: 1988 Mac OS NA: 1988 Arcade JP: 1988 Game Boy JP: June 14, 1989 NA: July 31, 1989 Mega Drive JP: 1989 Master System KR: 1989 CD-i EU: 1991 NA: 1992 Game Boy Color JP: October 21, 1998 WonderSwan Color JP: April 18, 2002 Commodore VIC-20 WW: September 30, 2006
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	System 16 System E

Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame	Arcade: C64: Macintosh: NES (Tengen):   NES (Nintendo):
CVG	94%
Crash	77%
Sinclair User
Your Sinclair	9/10
Zzap!64	98%
ACE	95%

Awards
Publication	Award
Zzap!64	Gold Medal
Sinclair User	SU Classic

Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.

Tetris was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US, where it was published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity.

The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes. It has even inspired Tetris serving dishes and been played on the sides of various buildings.

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