3D Tetris (VB)

Number of Players

1 (Single Player)

Genre

Release Date

Virtual Boy

22nd Mar 1996

20
Review 3D Tetris (Virtual Boy)

It’s Tetris. On the Virtual Boy. Again.
Perhaps one of the strangest things about the Virtual Boy is that it had two Tetris games. OK there are many systems with multiple versions of Tetris but they were around a lot longer than Virtual Boy was. Interestingly--though this would have changed had the system been around longer--each region only got...
- Thu 23rd Jul 2009
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Soapbox My Love Affair With Tetris, Probably The Best Video Game Ever Created

More than 30 years of block-dropping fun
Like millions of players all over the world, my relationship with Tetris began with the Game Boy. Alexey Pajitnov's famous puzzler may have begun its life on computers in 1984, but it would find a whole new level of fame thanks to the fact that it was bundled with Nintendo's million-selling monochrome...
- Mon 18th Feb 2019
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3D Tetris is a video game released for the Virtual Boy in 1996. A Japanese version was planned, to be called Polygo Block, but production of games was ceased due to lack of interest in the Virtual Boy system. This was the last game released on the Virtual Boy.

This version of the game of Tetris uses a three-dimensional playing field as opposed to the traditional two dimensions more generally used. The player not only rotates the playing piece horizontally, but vertically as well which means that the piece has four possible directions in which to move.