Tetris

NES · 1989-11-01

Tetris is a 1989 NES video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released by Nintendo of America in the USA on November 1, 1989. A random sequence of tetrominoes (sometimes called "tetrads" in older versions)—shapes composed of four square blocks each—fall down the playing field (a rectangular vertical shaft, called the "well" or "matrix"). The objective of the game is to manipulate these tetrominoes, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of blocks without gaps. When such a line is created, it disappears, and any block above…