14 Games In The Upcoming 'Tetris Forever' Compilation Have Been Confirmed

I'm so ready for this!

No Game Boy Tetris is unfortunate. That's the Tetris with that had the most impact for a lot of Nintendo gamers.

Can't wait, but... no release date in mid-October for a 2024 launch yet?

Tetris is amazingTetris connected on Switch is one of my absolute favourites and I loved the old Gameboy version!

yeah I'll pass, wake me up when the Tetris Plus games get re-released

@switchscreenshots Yeah. Tetris Gameboy and Arcade version would be the first games i would have included.
At least 1984 version is in the collection.

Twintris from 1990 on Amiga with the best Tetris music ever should have been included too.

Aww, no Tetris Plus. I guess that may be because it was made by Jaleco. That's okay, I'll still get this. Always in the mood for Tetris.

Tetris 99 and Comnected is enough for me. I wish we had Dr Mario/ Luigi online. I've really missed that this gen. A perfect game for NSO members.

Yeah, I kinda love the idea of this, but you really do have to wonder.. Why are 90% of these not already on the NSO service?!
And the answer is probably "because we can sell this.."
So. I dunno. I don't think it's worth complaining.
I do love me some Bombliss..

Aw no tetrisphere

No physical, no purchase.
These Digital Eclipse releases are Museum quality compilations, that are too good to languish in digital format.

hay wait a second, the digital eclipse website says there will be more than 15 games in this, where is the info that this the full list of games from?

Already had great fun with the ACA Tetris Grand Master series and Tetris Effects as well as the two Puyo Puyo Tetris games so that's enough Tetris for me. Might get this collection at some point if I could afford it but that's the thing with Tetris, you play one version then you technically play all of em. Also I'm not a fan of the later ones that added gimmick which are terrible.

There’s still V-Tetris for the Virtual Boy which isn’t bad but I don’t know if anyone remembers it.

Whatever happened to Bulletproof anyway?

@Jayenkai ask the company who is publishing why it isn’t on NSO. Nintendo has zero control over these titles.

I believe one of them is coming to NSO later this year. One of the NES titles in the collection?

I love Tetris, but I think I have enough…. I have it on Switch x3 if u count Puyo Puyo Tetris, then on PS5 so I can play it in VR.

@Zeebor15 they closed down in 2001 but a different company named Blue Planet Software was funded in 1996 as a successor to Bullet-Proof Software (don't ask me how a company funded in 1996 is a successor to a company that closed 5 years later, i don't know) and in 2020 that company got rolled into The Tetris Company

I’m nasty at tetris! Been at it for 40 years!

So which version of Hatris are you guys playing first?

Counting different console releases of the same game shouldn't count

@Zach Same, I'll be all over that if/when it comes to NSO.

No Tetris Attack and Magical Tetris Challenge?

No Gameboy Tetris included makes this a “skip until a deep sale.” Not having the most formative version included is really just unacceptable.

@Don Tetris Attack is not a Tetris game, it's a Panel de Pon/Puzzle League game and Nintendo owns that

No Tengen Tetris, Tetris Plus, Tetris DX, Tetris Attack or Tetris World. Whew Tetris, Tetris, Tetris Tetris!

@LadyCharlie amen!

I really enjoy falling block puzzle games, but I don't see me buying a compilation of tetris like games. Especially with no physical release.

That's some weird choices, I do like they've got the very original in there to see how it all started, but no GameBoy Tetris seems like a major oversight. I guess with it on NSO they either couldn't include it here or decided it wasn't worth it.

Personally, you've got to have Tetris DS to get my attention, that's by far my favourite version.

@Sylamp
Didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. I still would like to see a re-release of that game along with Yoshi’s Cookie.

I'm definitely going to be picking this up, especially as a fan of Tetris and Digital Eclipse, but I feel like this should of been taken further in terms of game line-up. Tetris has so many games across so many consoles, so just focusing on the Famicom, Gameboy, and SNES mainly I feel like is really unfortunate, especially when there are other games that definitely should of been included. Atari/Tengen Tetris should of definitely been here (at least the arcade version) since Atari owns Digital Eclipse now. I also feel games like Tetris Plus, The New Tetris, Tetris Worlds, Tetris Party, Tetris Ultimate, Tetris Axis, hell put Facetris in there. Sure games like Gameboy/NES Tetris & Tetris DS I get since those are so Nintendo that they couldn't get them, and games like Tetris Grand Master are already being released separately, but I feel like if this is truly a legacy Tetris Collection, it needs a little more stuff in it.

@Zeebor15 apparently they were known as Blue Planet Software for a while and allegedly exists today exists as The Tetris Company.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't see someone had already answered.

An odd selection of games, but I've heard Tetris Battle Gaiden is really good. If there's a physical release not by Limited Run Games, I'll be there.

@Toastmaster There's two different "arcade" versions you could be thinking of depending on region.
The Atari Games version released in the west, whereas a different version made by Sega was apparently much more influential among Asian gamers.

@GameOtaku Very sad no Tengen Tetris with coop mode, but also sad they couldn't have included Tetris DS, which is my other favorite version

@Sylamp Run two companies at once. Trip Hawkins ran EA and The 3DO Company at the same time.
Though in the case of BPS, I don't know if they were necessarily two different companies or just two labels of the same company.

@GameOtaku Tetris Attack isn't a Tetris game at all. The Tetris Company guy I believe has even said that while TA is a good game on its own, he doesn't want to license the Tetris name to something that doesn't actually involve Tetris.

A must-buy for me. Hoping for a physical version. Sure, a comprehensive collection would be great, but I'm sold because it's Digital Eclipse and I think I can get a lot of hours of fun out of all the variations.

I was hoping this collection would have Welltris, the first official Tetris sequel (it's even designed by Alexey Pajitnov).

Regardless, this is still a pretty impressive line-up of Tetris games and spin-offs. Having Hatris is a deep-cut inclusion, let alone 3 versions of it.

People don't seem to realize this game is focused on Bullet-Proof Software's Tetris games and is multiplatform. We were never going to see any Tetris game that had Nintendo's name on it

for people wondering why gb tetris isn't here, it's because it's a nintendo made port of tetris

@rainbowtick 💯. Those who know, know. 😊

The C64 Mirrorsoft version would be nice, if only for the background and the 26-minute Wally Beben music. One direction of rotation and hard drop only still takes getting used to. Presumably no GB or NES Tetris because one's already in NSO and the other soon will be. (Maybe the C16/+4 version, the colours in that were way better.)

The Atari coin-op version would be another great addition, but for now I guess I'll have to make do with the C64 fan-conversion of that.

Tetrisphere or GTFO.

I already have Tetris for NES and GB via the NSO apps.

Is Hatris like the "Yoshi" game for the NES ?? 🤨

Oh well, no Wordtris. Hatris I always wanted to play.

Tetris Attack please...One of my favorite puzzle games ever! And it's nowhere to be found. Sigh.

@davetobin Gameboy 1990 might be missing because greedy Nintendo probably wanted millions to have it included.

@KingMike
None of them are included as they are not official licensed games, because Atari and Sega stole the game.
I think only non pirate versions were allowed in this Tetris collection.

Sega and Atari were not the only companies that pirated arcade games as piracy were common in the arcade industry.
They stole each other games, rebranded and recolored them, and sold them as new games...
Arcade industry in 1980's is the definition of "messed up".

@KingMike I believe Arika's Tetris: The Grand Master series is the most influential arcade Tetris among Asian gamers.

@PikaPhantom but what about Welltris? Wasn’t that Bullet Proof?

Aside: isn’t it FamicoM, not FamicoN? I thought Digital Eclipse were known for their attention to detail?

@adrianfrg Not really. IIRC you have to stack 5 like hats in Hatris, and can flip the hats that drop. In Yoshi you have to sandwich as many characters as you can (which drop one by one) between two halves of egg shell, and you switch the stacks around.

This is strictly composed of games that are fully owned by The Tetris Company, which makes sense from a rights perspective. Nintendo maintains some rights to it's home versions, making it tricky to get Game Boy and NES on here (plus this is a multi platform release, AND those games are/will be available on NSO, so yeah, that was never gonna fly).

As for Tengen Tetris - even though Tengen was linked to Atari thru the Atari Games offshoot, Tengen was sold to Warner Bros in the 90's, so those rights reside with WB (who barely do ANYTHING with it's legacy Atari Games/Tengen and Midway holdings).

I love the Tetris games I already have on the Switch and elsewhere. However, I still want this! Ha!

One i want bad . If get physical copy

@Strob0 Correction to my statement: among the OG Tetris wave.

@Toastmaster That is definitely not correct to say the arcade games were "pirated".
Tetris games were licensed to different companies for "arcade", "console" and "computer" usage. They just weren't mindful to stay within the defined hardware category when making ports.

It is ridiculous to think that companies as huge as Sega and Atari Games would purposely sell illegitimate games.
Even in 1989, Atari Games knew better than to go against Nintendo's lawyers without feeling they had a strong case.

Kinda disappointed at how it's mostly Nintendo versions, which are pretty easy to play and emulate now a days. Would have preferred if there was more of a focus on the PC and arcade releases, and some more unusual platforms.

@Zach my favorite Tetris clone

Tengen Tetris is my favorite version (Too bad it can't be included!), and Tetrisphere was a blast. That would make a day one sale for me.

With Tetris effect and the GB version in NSO I am covered.

I love the CRT borders. I hope this becomes a new standard just like CRT filters. The slight fisheye visual effect at the corners is also quite impressive.

So like these are all similar games. I love Tetris, but was really hoping for The New Tetris and Tetrisphere. Those two N64 games are 2 of the best in the series.

Will likely wait for a sale before picking this up.