Abandonware DOS title

Classics: games like Tetris sorted by release date

I think I can safely say that Tetris is the single most popular computer puzzle game of all time. Countless variants were developed for every imaginable system year after year. Tetris was developed by a russian engineer called Alexey Pajitnov and published for the first time in 1984.

Most popular Tetris clones games

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Tetris

DOS1987 Spectrum HoloByte
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Nyet

DOS1988freeware
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Blockout

DOSMac OS1989 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
Imagine Tetris but in three dimensions and your brain slowly melting into a puddle of confusion. That is Blockout. You drop 3D shapes into a pit and try to line them up, but nothing fits the way you want it to. You rotate pieces o...
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Tetris 2.0

Windows XP/98/951990 AcademySoft
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Super Tetris

DOS1991 Sphere
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Sextris

DOS1992NSFW The Dream Team
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Tetris Classic

DOSWindows 3.x1992 Spectrum HoloByte
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Porntris

DOS1993remakeNSFW Image-Line Software
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Color Balls

DOS1996
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Tetris (Academysoft)

DOS1996 AcademySoft
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X-Tetris

Windows XP/98/951996NSFW
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Acid Tetris

DOS1998freewareremake
If you ever looked at regular Tetris and thought, “What this really needs is eye-melting colors and a possible migraine,” then Acid Tetris (1998, DOS) is your jam. It’s the classic block-dropper, now with a palet...
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BlockOut 2

Windows XP/98/95Linux2000freeware
If you’ve ever looked at Tetris and thought, “This needs to be in 3D and way harder,” then BlockOut 2 (2000) is your kind of punishment. This brain-melter takes falling blocks to the next dimension—literall...
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