Tetris (NES video game)

Tetris, also known as classic Tetris, is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) released in 1989, based on Tetris (1985) by Alexey Pajitnov. It was published after a legal battle between Nintendo and Atari Games, who had already released a Tetris NES port under a license that was found to be invalid. Bullet-Proof Software had previously published Tetris for the Family Computer in December 1988, while Nintendo had published Tetris for the Game Boy earlier in 1989.

This article is about the official Nintendo game. For the unofficial Tengen game, see Tetris (Atari Games).
"Classic Tetris" redirects here. For the DOS game, see Tetris Classic.

Tetris
North American box art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Producer(s)Gunpei Yokoi
Composer(s)Hirokazu Tanaka
SeriesTetris
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
  • NA: November 1989
  • EU: February 23, 1990
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player

This Tetris port is unusual because the game is designed to end (by becoming too fast to play) after a certain number of lines are cleared. Score must be accumulated through efficient play, rather than endurance, before the game ends. These circumstances have led to its use as an esports game.

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