Unofficial Games
These games are not official Tetris products:
| Title | Year | Platform | Developer | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blockout | 1989 | Mega Drive/Genesis Commodore 64 Arcade Apple IIGS PC Atari Lynx |
California Dreams | Object is to move and rotate polycubes falling into a well, viewed from the top, in order to make complete planes. |
| Frac4D | 1990 | Max Tegmark | A version in which the falling pieces are tesseracts that can be rotated in four dimensions. | |
| Emacs Tetris | Emacs has a Tetris implementation available by typing Meta-x then tetris (or pong). | |||
| Quadrapassel (Formerly Gnometris) | Linux | A part of Gnome Games, and comes with the GNOME desktop environment. | ||
| KBlocks | Linux | A KDE4 game available with many Linux distributions using KDE. | ||
| TetriNET | 1997 | Windows Linux Mac OS X BeOS |
St0rmCat7 | A variant playable on Internet with up to 6 players. On clearing lines the player receives special blocks that can be used to damage the field of the opponent or help a teammate. This imitation uses general Tetris inferences, but the main differential is its 12 by 22 play field dimensions. |
| Wordtris | Windows Super NES Game Boy |
Players try to complete words found in the dictionary file. | ||
| La Bastille | 2000 | Linux | Tech House, Brown University | A version implemented on the 10-story tall science library building at Brown University, using Linux. |
| Tetris 1D | 2002 | Ziga Hajdukovic | A joke version with a single column. The player is repeatedly given only the long piece, and only has one control key (to increase the falling rate.) 1D Tetris was included in the "Zero Gamer" Exhibition as a "game that tests the viewers' endurance in meditative inaction." | |
| Lockjaw | 2006 | Windows Linux Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS |
Damian Yerrick | Noted for its gameplay speed by world champion Tetris player Jono Pearson. |
| Tetris Grand Master 3 | 2008 | Nintendo DS | MeRAMAN | A remake of the arcade game Tetris: The Grand Master with additional features such as invisible blocks. |
| Rectangle Tetris | 2008 | Mac OS X | Pandamonia LLC | In this variation rectangles are placed on a grid with dimensions corresponding to dice rolls. |
| NullpoMino | 2008 | Windows Linux Mac OS X |
NullNoname | Tetris fan game notable for variety of gameplay modes and customizability. NullpoMino gameplay videos of Mario and Luigi patterns were shown in the Yoasobi Sanshimai show. |
| Not Tetris | 2010 | PC | Maurice Guegan | Adds physics engine behavior to the falling blocks. It is also widely regarded as the best version of the game to ever be created. |
| Tetrizle | 2011 | PC | Denys Krutko | Tetrizle is a free tetris-like game where puzzle picture is constructed from falling tetromino pieces |
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