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From the land that has produced the greatest chess minds comes a very different mind game.
Developed by two Soviet programmers, TETRIS is the first computer game to breach the Iron Curtain. It now stands before you, not as a test of crude brawn, but an intense battle of wits.

TETRIS is a dynamic puzzle that seems easy enough; Rotate and flip moving geometric blocks into unbroken rows. When you completely fill up the bottom row, it disappears from the screen and the score rises. When enough rows vanish, the block descend faster and faster.
Nothing to it, right? Wriong! When you can't find the way to make the pieces together and more blocks tumble down to clog your screen, you'll wish you had ten hands ― and ten brains.
Warning: Although TETRIS may be great food for thought, it's so much fun, it's positively addictive. So don't forget to eat something to fuel your body (maybe apple pie?).
TETRIS and apple pie. Now that's détente!

dandyboh 2007-09-11 23:38:13 - official description - 3 replies

Pieces are made from 4 connected squares in 7 variations and can be rotated 90 degrees as they slowly drop until they hit bottom of 'the bucket' or other squares. Fill in all 10 squares in a row to make it vanish for points. Completing 2 or 3 rows at once results in bonus points. Completing 4 rows at once is called a 'tetris' and scores the most.
In this version of the game, 2 players can compete or cooperate in separate buckets or the same bucket. Also, AI players are provided for all 2 player modes. This version also has Russian music and dancers.

Trivia:
It is widely assumed in North America that 'TETЯIS', with the backwards 'R' (Cyrillic letter 'Ya') is the Russian spelling of the title. But this was simply faux Cyrillic typography. The correct Cyrillic is ТЕТРИС (ТЕТРИІС). Some packaging is shown ТЕТРИ☭, with the Cyrillic (Ukrainian) 'І' crossing a backwards 'С' to form a backwards ☭ (Unicode U+262D, ). Otherwise known as the hammer and sickle (Сърп и чук), A symbol of communism made famous on the Soviet flag.

Zerothis - 2006-11-09 20:35:59