Talk:List of Tetris variants

message: The Amazon Tetris variants obviously have only the advertising text copied from amazon. If you "you+to+compare+your+progress+against+other+GameCircle+participants."+tetris&oq="you+to+compare+your+progress+against+other+GameCircle+participants."+tetris google for some parts of it you'll find the exact same text on several app stores.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.134.123.19 (talk) 03:11, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Online Tetris Variants (and probably copyright issues)

message: off the bat, missing many arcade versions, i'll check back later to edit. Also, tetrinet would be located with the other clones, along with tetron, quadra, and some other more popular variants.
:If it's an officially licensed Tetris product, it should remain in the table.  Tetris.com had a partial list on its older site.  Also, some games use the Tetris brand without using real Tetris gameplay.  Any clone info to add to the bottom would be appreciated.
:okay, tetrinet is a clone, for one. if you need a larger list of officially licensed tetris games, try:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=tetris&x=0&y=0
they're missing tetris grand master 2, and the not yet released third installment. more info on that can be found at http://www.arika.co.jp/
i'm also pretty sure there was a pokemon variation released for gameboy. i'll search for more sources later.
:I believe the Pokemon Tetris game you're referring to is Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, also released for the N64, which used the same gameplay as Panel de Pon (the Japanese name of Tetris Attack.  I don't think that would belong here, but feel free to add it.
no, the  one i am referring to was released in 2001 i believe:
http://marillsworld.com/pokemonmini.shtml / also, "net tetris" is an unlicensed clone-- i'll put it in the right place.
does anyone object to changing "unofficial" to "unlicensed"?
:This may cause some confusion between "unlicenced" in the sense of the Tegen NES Tetris and "unlicenced" as in an unofficial variant. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 20:17, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
(C64) Duotris added to the list.
::I remember playing something called "Tetronix", althought it appears to have been Tetris Max, which apparently used pentominoes instead of tetrominoes. Is that listed and I missed it? Or is it considered a totally different game?--T. Anthony 05:29, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hah, it makes no difference. Tetris Max doesn't seem to be there either. Anyway as a kid I had an Apple IIGS so I played Apple related computer games. Tetris Max or Tetronix(whichever) was basically identical to Tetris accept it used three and five piece blocks. To be honest I kind of preferred it to regular Tetris as it had a greater variety of shapes. Anyway know what I'm talking about? Can it not be counted for legal reasons? Or did I just miss it?--T. Anthony 05:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing

message: What are the criteria for listing a version under one part of the page or another?  Basically, what distinguishes a clone from a variant?  Official from unofficial?  And why are the two sections completely different in format - one a table, and the other a plain list?
Better would be to make a proper distinction between:
* clones, by which I understand implementations of the original gameplay, with nothing added and nothing taken away (you could ask whether it's worth listing these at all)
* implementations of the original game with various play modes, all of which are essentially plain old Tetris (e.g. Game Boy Tetris)
* variants, by which I understand modifications of the gameplay to make what is essentially a different game (e.g. Dr Mario, Welltris, Columns or any of the 3D variants)
* compendia of Tetris and variant games (e.g. Tetris & Dr Mario, Tetrix Classics)
And of the variants with variable-sized blocks, I'm surprised somebody decided to name one Pentis.  No doubt several people (myself included) have coded up what that name logically means and probably even used that name: a version where all the pieces are pentominoes.  Moreover, all Google gives me towards the Core Image version is Wikipedia and its mirrors. -- Smjg 18:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The layout of this page makes little or no sense 

message: Listed are Super Tetris 2 and 3, which I assume are sequels, but the only game I played and knew existed (until now) is Super Tetris, which seems to be missing. Maybe I'm missing something here, so I didn't add it. Retodon8 02:15, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of the games here don't seem to belong on a list of Tetris variants - see my above comment.  Is Super Tetris any different in gameplay from normal Tetris? -- Smjg 12:56, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, from what I remember Super Tetris is simply Tetris looking prettier. I remember soundcard background music and a circus setting (background image), but I don't think it even had powerups or anything deviating from the original Tetris gameplay. Retodon8 15:00, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Super Tetris 

message: Has somebody played Tetriller? A Swedish game from 1990, where the programmers added a little guy running around and who the player should avoid hitting with the falling block... One of the funniest semi-clones I have played is X-Tetris, though, where different male and female characters are falling down the playing field, and you are supposed to pair them up for intercourse, and orgasmical release. Very silly, but it should probably be an easier game if it had a queer mode. 85.226.122.194 13:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variants 

message: Quadra, Yahoo! Towers, and Brick game. 128.6.176.54 20:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Yahoo! Towers and Gadgadsgame from Neopets kind of work. Although, Yahoo! Towers does NOT have rotating blocks - just blocks that change position. (A game on CalgaryPlanet has a game called "Sushi" that works the same way. Or last I checked.)And Gadgadsgame, well, if a box of the same fruit is made, it grows bigger. There is a way to clear them, when a flashing background version of the fruit touches the same type of fruit when it lands. Anyway, I don't know if the Brick Game, in your context, counts. If you mean the one in Lego, it's more like Connect Four. --Addict 2006 04:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Variants 

message: Please be aware that Wikipedia has an official policy against articles that are web directories: See WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory and Wikipedia:External links.
The version of this article that an anonymous user is reverting to (citing 'vandalism') contains a list  of unnotable clones referenced only by an external link to their respective official sites.
This is external link spamming. If there is a particluar Tetris clone(s) that you are trying to highlight, let me know which ones and we can see if we can make a full article for them and add them to the table proper. Marasmusine 16:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What's wrong with adding games to the list without using external links? SharkD 00:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing, as long as they follow Wikipedia's WP:V policy; although if such entries can do so it's probably worth making a full article for them. Marasmusine 19:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  11th April 2007 

message: I believe Tetris Elements has both Windows and Macintosh versions on the same disc. Look here: http://www.valusoft.com/tetris/elements/index.html Theclaw1 15:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted, I added the reference. Marasmusine 17:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elements

message: what about frac? not on the table.  we're not encyclopedia britannica here.  last i heard, wikipedia originated in america and in america we take everything to extreme including listing tetris variants.  furthermore, all your base are belong to us.  S.Riccardelli
:Frac? The Food Research and Action Center? Furthermore, fnord. MarašmusïneTalk 18:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's certainly a Tetris clone. Next thing to do is read WP:N and WP:V and ask yourself "is Frac" important and can the information be verified? MarašmusïneTalk 06:58, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Frac

message: Under Tetris Splash: "First Xbox Live Arcade title for Tetris. It is also the first game produced by Henk Rogers' Tetris Company after Rogers bought the rights to Tetris." This to my knowledge is untrue. "The rights to Tetris" is extremely complicated, and cannot be summed up that way. Henk purchased the license to Tetris on some platforms in the eighties, then went on to further market the game, but this statement is just weird. If there's no source, it should be deleted, as it is very misleading/inappropriate. 68.222.12.37 01:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced 

message: There is a variant, that's very well known and popular and it's called Sex Tetris (1996), it's not yet added on the list.
The variant I meant is at http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/xtet.htm
What do you recon guys ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.13.178 (talk) 12:29, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It will need to be verified by a reliable, independent source. If it's well known, perhaps it's had a mention in one of the 90s PC magazines. Marasmusine (talk) 18:40, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sex Tetris 

message: If anyone is interested, a Tetris inspired mod for free chess program called NagaSkaki can be found here along with a screenshot: http://mayothi.com/forum_smf/index.php?topic=1149.0  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.112.159.45 (talk) 02:38, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tetris Chess

message: Look at that it's gone again just after 10 min and I can even not refine my post
--124.78.236.127 (talk) 11:08, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It was deleted, perhaps a little harshly, under the speedy deletion criteria for "unambigious advertising". I can restore it for you, but I would first need to see if you can source the information from reliable, independent publications. (It's how this encyclopedia is built). Marasmusine (talk) 11:51, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is my post for the Tetris Zone......???? 

message: I would like to propose to include some special case tetris to the list:
* polytopetetris
* 4dtris
* hypertetris
89.133.43.141 (talk) 09:45, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They'll need to have been mentioned in a reliable secondary source. Couldn't spot anything with a quick search - I'll try something more indepth later. Marasmusine (talk) 05:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't know, if any of this can be considered as _reliable_ secondary source, but the third link above (hypertetris) is a secondary source, an article's abstract about Hypertetris  (the link for the original project is dead). There is another article about tetris from Colin Fahey (link) which introduce both Hyper and Polytope tetris. 4dtris has a page on Libre Game Wiki (which was incorrect about version numbers btw.) and BlockOut.net Wiki. 1've also found a 4th 4D tetris, frac4d, which is described in an interactive Scientific American article http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=interactive-12-events in ExtraDimensions/TetrisInFourDimension section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.43.141 (talk) 16:59, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Scientific American article was a good find. The others aren't usable though (see WP:RS). I've added frac4d, thanks. Marasmusine (talk) 20:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Multi-dimensional tetrises

message: I made a userpage for Super Tetris and its sequels. If anybody could help find sources, that would be great. Blake (Talk·Edits) 20:37, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Super Tetris(and its sequels) 

message: I'm just trying a few different formats, to make the best fit for year/publisher/platform/developer. Sorry for the mess. Might try sub-tables, or go back to a single column for all that. Thoughts? Marasmusine (talk) 15:50, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Table columns

message: why is it missing? no license?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.137.101.100 (talk) 11:07, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  original Russian game of 1986 

message: I found a 6 page list of Tetris clones, I will mention it here, for archiving purposes (Archive.is). 
—  Ark25  (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of Tetris clones 

message: Open source Tetris clones:
* TETRIS Queen - http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtetris/
* Ultimate Tetris - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimatetetris/
* Tetris Unlimited - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tetrisunlimited/
* Tetris - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cncjavatetris3d/
* Tetris++ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tetris2p/
* YAT – Yet Another Tetris clone - http://dword.dk/blog/software/ogre/yat/
—  Ark25  (talk) 20:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tetris clones 

message: Maybe we could add these variants:
* The first-person Tetris: the falling piece always stays at the center of the screen with the same orientation. Instead, it is the whole environment that moves according to the player's actions. Otherwise, the rules are the same as the original Tetris. http://www.firstpersontetris.com/
* Tetris Hell: not really a game, but rather an implementation of a joke from the XKCD web comics. It adds a physic engine to the original Tetris, but the bottom of the play field is not flat, so the pieces cannot align well. http://www.geekosystem.com/xkcd-tetris-hell-game/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.173.9.3 (talk) 12:56, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Browser-based variants 

message: One of the most popular versions of Tetris: a pack-in for the Nintendo Game Boy when it was released, is something I can't find on this list. It should go somewhere between Hatris and Welltris on the list of official games, but I see nothing. Even the game after those two games says it's the fourth game of the Tetris series, even though the list implies it's the third. I can't even find the game in the other parts of the article. So is the exclusion of the Game Boy version a mistake or is there something I'm missing? 
Wiki nol ege █[:]====▶• 03:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Just need a source for verification and it can go in. Marasmusine (talk) 08:58, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The pack-in Game Boy edition 

message: Whatever happened to games as; HEXAGON wich handles about the same as tetris except for the fact that the tiles/stones are shaped as (what a surprise...) hexagons! You could turn your stones around in 6 angles and you had to fit them together in the way hexagons fit... Or what about FALLOUT where you allways have 3 square stones in a straight line coming down and these stones had different colours so the stones would disapear when you had 3 stones with matching colours lined up? And the last one I could come up with is SQUARES where you had to play with all combinations of forms possible that would fit into a 3x3 grid wich you could move freely into a much larger grid and where the stones in the larger grid would disapear when you managed to get a square of 3x3 filled up. All three games have been played by myself so they do excist and all of them ran under DOS. Yes, they're ancient...Oxygene7-13 (talk) 17:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Find a reliable secondary source that describes the games non-trivially, and describes them as Tetris clones, and they can go in. Marasmusine (talk) 08:57, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm still missing a few... 

message: Quatros Origins - http://www.ign.com/games/quatros-origins/pc-20057119
I couldn't find anything on the following:
*Quadris
*Quatris Pro
*Quatris 2 Gold
*Quatris 2 Plus
*Welltris
Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 11:02, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variants 

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message: The link Tetris Classic redirects to this article, but is not mentioned in the article. Why is that? According to MobyGames, it is a legitimate 1992 DOS/Win3.1 release of Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte. --HunterZ (talk) 06:14, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tetris Classic 

message: Please consider adding Galois to this list. It is a notable Tetris variant as it has several rare or unique features: triangular and hexagonal bricks, three-dimensional game mode, blocks made of variable number of bricks, superblocks. It is included in over a dozen Linux distributions (see here: ), I guess that counts as not being just the work of another random developer. Thanks. 81.208.91.150 (talk) 09:39, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody objected I went on and added it. 81.208.91.150 (talk) 18:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galois 

message: Possible to include...? --91.125.45.82 (talk) 22:45, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brick Game and other LCD versions 

message: For some strange reason, Tetr.io and Jstris are not on the variants list despite them being very popular games in the Tetris genre. They are much more well known and recognized yet they are not being included here. 
For Jstris, it has been featured in Polygonyet it has not been included in this article. Please consider adding it, as it represents a very big portion of the modern Tetris community, including the fast Tetris community. 
Tetr.io has had more than 2 million players and is also becoming an ever-growing and popular unofficial variant but it also is not featured in this article despite being more popular than most games here. You would think, logically, that you would include the most popular games and yet they are not here. 
I am also having hard time understanding why is Tetra Online being removed from the variants as well despite their being sources provided?  This includes Tetra Online that was added in the unofficial variants section before being removed? 
Finally, Nuketris is new variant with a boss system that should also game an entry here. 
I am very concerned for the way in which this article is being managed and the fact that the unofficial variant section is not being given proper justice. Jdom126 (talk) 01:21, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a directory. This is not an exhaustive list of every Tetris game ever. Games aren't included because they are popular, they are included because they have verification from a reliable, independent source. This would typically be a review in a print magazine or one of the major gaming websites. Marasmusine (talk) 12:28, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Jstris, Tetr.io, Tetra Online, and Nuketris?  

message: I got curious about the alleged PopCap version of Tetris and could not find a source for it existing, I found it odd from the start by it being said to release on virtually every home console current to 2008; Windows and Mac; as well as the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, both of which only had physical games. This also made its way to List of PopCap games Keightbillion (talk) 01:53, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I could not find anything on Popcap's official website, and there's no Tetris game on the EA app. Citation was requested 6 months ago. I have removed it for now. Marasmusine (talk) 19:58, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  PopCap Games Tetris has no evidence for its existence