Talk:Tetris

The following is not an encyclopedia article...it's a review, maybe. Please avoid use of the first person in articles (nobody knows who "I" means). --LMS

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Atari Arcade tetris is my favorite variant.

"The Next Tetris" is a recent release by Hasbro. I thought that variant was a disappointment. Most of the other arcade remakes in that series were lame. (I also bought Q-Bert, Asteroids, and Missle Command from that series. I picked them up for $5 in the discount bin.)

Game Boy Tetris is supposed to be good, although I never played it.

Wesleyan Tetris is a cute variant. It has several interesting features, including invisible bricks and shifting bricks. Unfortunately, it only exists for the Macintosh.

I remember playing a bootleg Chinese? tetris variant. It was 2-players, but the computer could be one of the players. It featured special bricks that let you have a bird (fired bricks), cannon (destroyed bricks), remove 4 lines, and weight (cleared 3 columns). I believe the executable name was DTETRIS.

There are also games that are in the tetris family, but not strictly tetris.

Dr. Mario

Puzzle Bobble

Puyo Puyo

Columns

Klax

Uo Poko (see mame.dk for this and many others)

I also found Hatris, Facetris, Welltris, and Wordtris to be lame.

There are some good 3D tetris variants out there.