The Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online app will add the 1989-released Tetris game published by Nintendo on December 12, Nintendo announced.

Over three decades have passed since Tetris made its debut on the NES in 1989. Since then, ... Just 18 cleared lines of blocks from the vaunted True Killscreen. He was close.

If you keep playing long enough, NES Tetris can eventually just crash when you reach certain conditions - like making a single-line clear on level 157, which has a 73.33% chance of crashing the game.

The blocks keep coming and the game itself gets reinterpreted, twisted and remade for new generations. Now, a 13-year-old boy has become the first person to ‘ beat ’ the NES version of Tetris ...

From the NES version's release in 1988 until 2011, it was believed that clearing level 29 was impossible because the controller's directional pad couldn't move the blocks fast enough.

Credit: Tetris. A 13-year-old named Willis Gibson, who goes by the handle Blue Scuti, managed to beat Tetris on the NES at its hardest level. But he didn't just beat it; he shattered a number of ...

The NES version of Tetris has been around for over 34 years, but a human has just completed it for the first time. This all culminated when a 13-year-old named Willis Gibson reached this kill ...

If you just want to play with the modification, you can download developer Stephen Sherratt's IPS patch from Github and directly apply it to your own Tetris NES ROM. There are two versions of the ...

In the fall of 2018, tucked away in a side hall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, seven-time Classic Tetris World Champion (CTWC), Jonas Neubauer, found himself against the ropes. 37-year-old ...

Over the weekend, 16-year-old American competitive gamer Michael Artiaga became the first human NES Tetris player to achieve “rebirth” by beating level 255 and rolling the counter back to zero ...

Tetris® for NES comes to Nintendo Switch Online on 12/12! ... But satisfaction comes as you position each block neatly into place. Start at new heights for a tougher contest.

Tetris is, arguably, the perfect video game, and it's a shame we don't see its mechanics riffed on more often. A new indie called Flowstone Saga is trying to give its own spin on classic block ...