{"id":1035226,"date":"2026-01-16T01:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=479590"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:40:21","slug":"tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Forever is an incomplete tribute to the best game of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time.png\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\"><em>Tetris<\/em> is <em>Tetris<\/em>. It\u2019s basically perfect, and it always has been. This is abundantly clear when you load up the first playable game in the new interactive documentary and retro game compilation <em>Tetris Forever<\/em>: the original <em>Tetris<\/em>, as it was on the Electronika 60 computer that was already old-fashioned when Alexey Pajitnov wrote the game in Russia in 1984. The text is all in Cyrillic alphabet, the blocks are made out of brackets (the Electronika 60 had no graphics function at all), the only color is green, and the game lacks several design refinements, like the score multiplier for clearing multiple lines at once. And yet, as crude as it is, the game is as instantly and ferociously playable as it is intuitive, and as profoundly satisfying as any version of it since. It is a work of the purest genius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The chance to sample this epochal piece of software for yourself is the greatest privilege granted by <em>Tetris Forever<\/em>, which collects just a small handful of the dozens, maybe hundreds, of iterations of Pajitnov\u2019s game from the past four decades. The most powerful revelation contained in the collection is the instant, firsthand realization that almost everything that makes <em>Tetris <\/em>great was present in those early lines of code. After that, <em>Tetris Forever <\/em>developer Digital Eclipse has both everywhere and nowhere to go.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Tetris Forever<\/em> is the latest in Digital Eclipse\u2019s Gold Master Series, a format that bundles expertly emulated classic games with reams of multimedia information presented in an interactive timeline: filmed interviews, archive video, documentation, artwork, photography, and more. It\u2019s officially the third entry in the series, after the single-title deep dive <em>The Making of Karateka<\/em> and the astonishingly comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/gaming\/24101970\/llamasoft-jeff-minter-story-review\"><em>Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story<\/em><\/a> (which is basically the real-life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/452079\/ufo-50-review-pc\"><em>UFO 50<\/em><\/a>), although the format was established in the developer\u2019s excellent <em>Atari 50<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Tetris<\/em>\u2019 convoluted publishing history is a double-edged sword for Digital Eclipse. It makes for a compelling story, but it also makes assembling a definitive compilation of playable versions of the game an impossible task. Meanwhile, the story told by the versions that <em>are <\/em>included is that of successive talented game designers, Pajitnov included, searching in vain for a way to improve on perfection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The behind-the-scenes tale is the stuff of video game legend: A game conceived behind the Iron Curtain in the dying days of the Cold War becomes the subject of an intrigue-filled rights battle involving the USSR, Nintendo, shady British media barons, and a buccaneering entrepreneur called Henk Rogers. The story even has a happy ending, in which Rogers and Pajitnov form an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23663656\/tetris-creators-alexey-pajitnov-henk-rogers-history\">unlikely bromance<\/a>, consolidate the rights, and steward the game\u2019s future while raking in cash for the rest of time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time-2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It\u2019s also a tale that\u2019s been told many, many times before \u2014 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_Over_(Sheff_book)\">classic work of business journalism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ohCy4ktA5w\">a sturdy BBC documentary<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/23642325\/tetris-movie-review-apple-tv-plus\">rather silly biopic<\/a>, to name three. Still, the story\u2019s familiarity shouldn\u2019t take away from the material Digital Eclipse has assembled to tell it. There\u2019s tons of interview time with Rogers and Pajitnov, as well as expert witness from a number of luminaries, including <em>Tetris Effect<\/em> designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Rogers spins a great yarn, and brings the big moments to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">What really distinguishes <em>Tetris Forever <\/em>from those more conventional takes on the <em>Tetris <\/em>story is its dedication to tracking the evolution of the game itself through countless editions on every imaginable platform. But, while all the key variations of <em>Tetris<\/em> are mentioned (and a few more besides), the publishing rights are so broadly scattered through history that there is no way for Digital Eclipse \u2014 or even Rogers and Pajitnov\u2019s rights holder, The Tetris Company, which clearly collaborated closely on this release \u2014 to include playable versions of many of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Nintendo, as fiercely protective of its back catalog titles as ever, has not turned over the rights for any of its own <em>Tetris<\/em> variants to the project. This means that arguably the two definitive versions of <em>Tetris<\/em> \u2014 the iconic Game Boy <em>Tetris<\/em>, which found the perfect match of form and function, and NES <em>Tetris<\/em>, which is still the gold standard in competitive <em>Tetris <\/em>play \u2014 are not included. (The Game Boy game is available on Nintendo Switch Online, and the NES game is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1828438488330478074\">due to be added to the service this winter<\/a>.) Sega\u2019s classic arcade version is out, as are Arika\u2019s hardcore Tetris: The Grand Master<em> <\/em>games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time-3.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And those are just the essentials. It\u2019s galling to have to pass over the brief mention of a fascinating curio like the Philips CD-i <em>Tetris<\/em>, with its spaced-out New Age vibes and impeccable 1992 screensaver aesthetic, without getting to see it in action, never mind play it. (For an authoritative and entertaining overview of some of the games omitted from <em>Tetris Forever<\/em>, I recommend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cUeaanfiXmo\">hour-long video by Digital Foundry\u2019s John Linneman<\/a> that tours nearly 30 versions of the game.) In recent years, two of the most vital and interesting reinventions of the game have emerged \u2014 <em>Tetris 99 <\/em>and <em>Tetris Effect<\/em> \u2014 but, as current commercial titles, those are out of scope for this collection, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">What the game has instead is a collection composed mostly of the versions released by Rogers\u2019 own Bullet Proof Software in Japan in the 1980s and \u201990s: the 1988 Famicom release (not to be confused with Nintendo\u2019s NES game), the Tetris 2 + BomBliss series, and the cute versus game <em>Tetris Battle Gaiden<\/em>. There are a couple of relevant diversions from the Bullet Proof catalog, like the Famicom Go game that endeared Rogers to then-Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Pajitnov\u2019s charming but rather weak-sauce follow-up <em>Hatris<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There\u2019s worthwhile stuff in here. <em>Battle Gaiden<\/em> is still one of the best multiplayer renditions of <em>Tetris<\/em>, and <em>BomBliss <\/em>(by <em>EarthBound<\/em> designer Akihiko Miura) is one of the more successful attempts to elaborate on the game, which it does by introducing bombs that can be set off by completing lines. But the best any of these designs can hope to do is to limit how much they dilute the purity of <em>Tetris<\/em>. <em>BomBliss<\/em> is very good \u2014 especially in its conundrum-like puzzle mode \u2014 but even a variation as accomplished as this feels like a regular, run-of-the-mill puzzle game that\u2019s somehow tawdry and basic when placed next to the monolithic, flawless genius of its parent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tetris-forever-is-an-incomplete-tribute-to-the-best-game-of-all-time-4.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Digital Eclipse\u2019s own contribution is a new game, <em>Tetris Time Warp<\/em>, which has a fun gimmick: Every time the player clears 10 lines, a time-warp block drops, sending the player back to an earlier era of <em>Tetris<\/em>: the Electronika 60 version, a cheeky facsimile of Game Boy <em>Tetris<\/em>, a 16-bit <em>BomBliss<\/em>, and so on. Completing a timed challenge within the time warp awards a big points bonus before returning you to the modern era. There\u2019s a decent, enjoyably chaotic multiplayer version of <em>Time Warp<\/em> that supports up to four players, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Tetris <\/em>definitely is forever. You can\u2019t blame Digital Eclipse for wanting to memorialize it, or Rogers and Pajitnov for taking yet another victory lap, this time in interactive form. Studying and celebrating this game will always be worthwhile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But <em>Tetris<\/em> is also too perfect to evolve over time, too big to contain in one compilation, and too pure to need explanation. Rotate, drop, click, repeat. It\u2019s all there in the first five seconds. The rest is just lines to clear. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tetris Forever<em> was released Nov. 12 on Atari VCS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The game was reviewed on Switch using a pre-release download code provided by Digital Eclipse. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. You can find <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/pages\/ethics-statement\"><em>additional information about Polygon\u2019s ethics policy here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/479590\/tetris-forever-playable-documentary-compilation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetris is Tetris. It\u2019s basically perfect, and it always has been. This is abundantly clear when you load up the first playable game in the new interactive documentary and retro game compilation Tetris Forever: the original Tetris, as it was on the Electronika 60 computer that was already old-fashioned when Alexey Pajitnov wrote the game in Russia in 1984. The text is all in Cyrillic alphabet, the blocks are made out of brackets (the Electronika 60 had no graphics function at all), the only color is green, and the game lacks several design refinements, like the score multiplier for clearing multiple lines at once. 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