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Tetris

A Tetris clone released built-in the Hagenuk MT-2000, a mobile phone from Denmark released in 1994. The objective of the game is to use the pieces to create as many horizontal lines of blocks as possible. When…

31 December 1994

Tetris is a strategy, released 31 December 1994 on Legacy Mobile Device.

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What Tetris is

Tetris was released in 1994. It is available on Legacy Mobile Device only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Tetris clone released built-in the Hagenuk MT-2000, a mobile phone from Denmark released in 1994. The objective of the game is to use the pieces to create as many horizontal lines of blocks as possible. When a line is completed, it disappears, and the blocks placed above fall one rank.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tetris series

Tetris is the 38th of 145 entries we hold in the Tetris series. The next entry was PSS-63 in 1994.

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What it launched against

Tetris launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

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When did Tetris come out?
Tetris was released on 31 December 1994 for Legacy Mobile Device.

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