When you think of esports, Tetris likely doesn’t come to mind. Let alone NES Tetris played on original hardware. Yet, this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo a new Classic Tetris World Champion ...

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 ...

This article was first published in Novaya Vkladka in Russian. A translated and edited version is republished below with permission. Classic Tetris Russia, an analogy of the American Classic Tetris ...

The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship has arrived. Some might be doing a double take and asking, "Wait, isn't this a little early in the year for this?" Things are indeed different for 2024, ...

When the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) debuted in 2010, the kill screen was the game’s final, unbeatable boss. Players pushed to get the highest score possible before level 29, at which ...

At the tail end of summer, interactive museum creators Digital Eclipse announced that the next project in its Gold Masters Series would be Tetris Forever. A deep-dive into the 40+ year history of what ...

Nov. 16—An 11-year-old Willis Gibson was surfing the web for something to keep him entertained. That's the day he started playing Tetris, a game that's changed his way of life ever since. "It just ...

The 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship is back for another year. The world's best Tetris players have all gathered at this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Portland, Oregon for a chance to ...

A 13-year-old streamer, Blue Scuti, became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Blue Scuti broke 3 world records in total — including that monumental accomplishment — during ...

Enjoy this version of the beloved puzzle game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989! Stack the seven types of Tetrimino blocks that fall from the top of the Matrix into horizontal ...

In a nutshell: A crafty group of gamers has found a way to slip custom code into unmodified copies of classic puzzler Tetris on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It's an exploit that opens ...