Tetris 1985

Is it still worth playing?

A puzzle game created by the Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid 1980s, in which pieces of four blocks, called tetrominoes, drop one at a time into a rectangular field. Each piece can be moved sideways and rotated until it touches the bottom or another piece. The goal is to stack them into complete horizontal lines, which disappear and let the blocks above fall by one row. The pressure grows. Pieces come down faster as lines are cleared, and the game ends when the stack blocks new pieces from entering, which is known as topping out. Its play has been used in about 220 versions across at least 70 platforms. Pieces that keep falling faster, with only lines to save you, still make every game a race against the stack today.