History VideoGame / Tetris

** ''Tetris DS'' awards a large number of points or sends a whopping ''seven'' lines of garbage to the opponent for a T-Spin Triple. Many subsequent games simply don't recognize T-Spin Triples.

* CoOpMultiplayer: The Tengen NES version of ''Tetris'', ''Tetris Party'', ''Tetris: The Absolute — The Grand Master 2 PLUS'', and ''Tetris Ultimate'' have co-op modes where both players place pieces in a shared extra-wide well. ''Tetris 99'' has a post-release mode where two players play together against the computer players. ''Tetris Kiwamemichi'' notably has a similar mode that allows up to '''four''' players to play together.

* BackgroundMusicOverride: An interesting ''inversion'' of this occurs on ''Tetris 99'''s Invictus Mode, which can only be played by winners of the base Tetris 99 mode. When the player count drops to 10, the music will change to the appropriate track for the theme you're using, but the ''background itself'' will be overwritten unless you're playing on the original theme. This serves as a notice to the player that they've reached the pinnacle and it's also at this point that the pieces drop instanteously, giving it a very tense feeling of finality.

* ''VideoGame/TetrisWorlds'', a 2001 title featuring a story mode that must be cleared before the regular Tetris mode can be played. It has the dubious honor of making the Tetris Company begin enforcing guidelines on what a game carrying the ''Tetris'' name should be like.

* ''VideoGame/TetrisTheGrandMaster''
* ''VideoGame/TetrisWorlds''

* ''VideoGame/Tetris99'', a BattleRoyaleGame that stacks the player against 98 others, and the last man standing wins. All lines cleared send garbage to another player's field, which must be cleared lest they eat a Game Over.

* ''VideoGame/TetrisEffect''

* ''VideoGame/Tetris99''

-->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris]]", '''Music/PigWithTheFaceOfABoy'''

In February 2023, Nintendo would announce that the Game Boy version of ''Tetris'' would be releasing along with other Game Boy games as part of the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Nintendo Switch Online]] program, after they had already gone through decades of [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] with the Tetris Company surrounding rereleases of the game. The same year, [[Film/Tetris2023 a feature film]] regarding the film’s origins was announced for release on Creator/AppleTVPlus in March.

In February 2023, Nintendo would announce that the Game Boy version of ''Tetris'' would be releasing along with other Game Boy games as part of the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Nintendo Switch Online]] program, after they had already gone through decades of [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] with the Tetris Company surrounding rereleases of the game.

''They come down and I spin them around, 'til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.''\\

The concept is exceedingly simple. Tetriminoes[[note]]not a typo; The Tetris Company prefers this spelling over the standard "tetromino"[[/note]] (puzzle pieces made from four square blocks) are falling down the screen, and you must arrange them into lines by moving them around your workspace and rotating them. Once you form a line, all blocks in that line vanish, and everything above them falls down one level. You gain more points for making multiple lines at once — in the standard rules, the maximum number of lines that you can make at once is four, a "Tetris".

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris]]''' by Music/PigWithTheFaceOfABoy

Contrary to popular belief, the Russians did invade during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar -- it just went unnoticed, because they were crafty about it. Their invasion was called ''[[http://tetris.com Tetris]]'' (Russian: "Тетрис").

** ''Tetris DX''[='=]s endings feature attempts at launching something into space in order: [[note]]a small rocket that chases a bird, a toy rocket, a beer bottle (bottle rocket) [[Landmark/StatueOfLiberty]] and a failed rocket launch [[/note]]. If you play well enough, the same rocket is launched successfully that is later revealed to be carrying the titular tetriminoes.

** The NES version of ''Tetris'' had rocket launches if you got at least 30,000 points. The fourth level is the Buran space shuttle. If you score 120,000 or higher, they put a UFO on the launch pad, but the nearby St Basil's Cathedral launches instead.

** ''Tetris DX''[='=]s endings feature attempts at launching something into space. If you play well enough, a rocket is launched successfully.

** One of the Marathon options is 999 Line mode, referring to the 999 levels features in the ''TGM'' games' Master modes. In addition, getting to the 500th line triggers a massive DifficultySpike via a sudden and substantial drop speed increase, referencing ''TGM'' games reaching 20G drop speed at Level 500.

* FakeLongevity: 999 Line mode in ''Tetris 99'' Marathon Mode, which is achieved by proportionately stretching out the speed curve. Whereas Level 15 is nearly instant drop speed in 150 Line mode, Level 15 in 999 Line mode feels about as fast as Level 1. The mode ''does'' hit a DifficultySpike at 500 lines but it can take a while to get there.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Come on! ''LINE PIECE, DAMN YOU...!'']]

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris]]'''
---> by Music/PigWithTheFaceOfABoy

** Several of the MAXIMUS Cups for ''Tetris 99'', beginning with the fifth, award participants with special skins based on Nintendo properties featuring unique music and sound effects once they accumulate enough points. These are usually {{dualvertisement}}s for the release of a game or a wider promotional event. So far, there's been ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' (with songs and sound effects from the first game), ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', ''VideoGame/SuperKirbyClash'', ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'', ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition]]'', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'', ''[[VideoGame/KirbyFightersDeluxe Kirby Fighters 2]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioGolf Mario Golf: Super Rush]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD]]'', and ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' themes. The 2.0.0 update also has unlockable skins based on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'', and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.

* ''Tetris Plus'' and ''Tetris Plus 2'' have multiple endings featuring the Professor and the Assistant, most of which make the Professor into a ButtMonkey. The Queen and the Stick also show up in some of them.

*** ''Tetris Plus'' involved trying to clear the floor so that a gem-hunting archeologist could get to the exit and treasures at the bottom before the slowly descending spikes reached his head. That's it.

** UpToEleven: ''VideoGame/WesleyanTetris'' will give you an absurdly shaped piece, then shuffle the landscape while you're trying to place it. It will lie about the next piece just seldom enough that you can't afford to ignore it. It will place an InvisibleBlock right where you were about to clear a line, and greet your failure with a {{Rimshot}}. Welcome to Tetris PlatformHell.

* UpToEleven:
** One of the numerous spinoff games out there is called "VideoGame/NotTetris", which ramps things up by adding a UsefulNotes/PhysicsEngine into the game. Even if you do manage to properly align a Tetrimino, it'll bounce around before it settles.
** I present to you [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris Hell]], which was inspired by the [[http://xkcd.com/724/ xkcd comic of the same name]], and which features a "U" shaped bottom. It is genuinely playable, but enjoy your hell.
** There's also Ntris (now [[http://combinos.herokuapp.com Combinos]]), which is a tetris game that can make pieces with up to ten squares. It does not seem to be ridiculous until you are faced with six and seven square pieces that just do not quite fit.
** [[http://firstpersontetris.com/ First-Person Tetris]]. If you're prone to motion sickness, beware.
** [[http://ngworks.net/game/tetoris.html Full HD Tetris]]. This is actually the second of three versions of Full HD Tetris made by this person and is by far the most insane — the playfield is so large that even ''deliberately losing'' by stacking to the top takes ages.
** ''Tetris 99'' does this with multiplayer ''Tetris''. Instead of 1, 2, or even 9 opponents, why not '''98''' of them?