The first commercially available version of the famed game of falling blocks game was released on June 6, 1984, created by Russian game designer Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov. Tetris is one of the best selling games of all time with estimated sales of 170 million over the past 35 years, across multiple platforms. Happy Birthday Tetris Nintendo Game Boy, the console which made Tetris famous Yup, whether you’re wedded to Tilix, cosy with Guake, or keeping things vanilla with GNOME Terminal, you have everything you need to play command line Tetris on Linux. In fact, you’d probably struggle to think of a game of falling blocks other than Tetris ( sorry Columns, you tried).Īnd I can’t think of better way to mark the puzzle game’s anniversary than to show you all how to play Tetris in a terminal emulator of your choice. With estimated sales of 170 million, Tetris is one of the best selling games of all timeĬhances are you know of Tetris, even if you’ve never played it. Why the terminal? Because why not! Besides, I associate the terminal with being productive, so this way I kinda get to fool myself.
Tetris is (probably) the most famous puzzle game of all time and this week it turns 35 - so, to celebrate, we show you how to play Tetris in the terminal.
