The new Tetris movie on Apple TV Plus plays fast and loose with the facts, but one thing is true: the game absolutely rules. Watching the movie will very likely make you want to go back to moving falling blocks until your eyes bleed. And there are many ways to do it.
The best way remains to grab the original cartridge and pop it into the Game Boy (or into the analog pocket if you feel like it). But many other options are terrible, like the main mobile app, which is riddled with long-winded ads and a Candy Crush-like structure that saps the joy out of the game.
Luckily for you, I have multiple versions of Tetris installed on pretty much every device I own, so I've put together a few options for the best ways to play the game on modern hardware.
Tetris effect
No modern interpretation of Tetris understands the game as much as Tetris Effect. At its best, the game is a meditative experience where you lose yourself in the process of perfectly lining up the blocks. There is a whole phenomenon named after how it affects your brain. Tetris Effect doesn't play with it - it amplifies it. The game is pretty much straight-up Tetris, but augmented with beautiful and trippy visuals and audio that make it easy to slip into this zone. It even tells a story along the way, and it's surprisingly cool in VR.
Tetris Beat
Like Tetris Effect, Tetris Beat mostly expands on the classic experience. It plays a soundtrack and also introduces a very interesting mode called "tap" in which you have to throw blocks in time to the beat. It's a bit like Tetris meets Lumines (which is fun in a roundabout way given how clearly Tetris influenced the other). It also has remarkably firm touch controls that aren't easy to pull off for a game that requires this level of precision. The only catch is that you'll need an Apple Arcade subscription to try it out.
Tetris
If you're looking for a classic experience without the classic hardware, you might want to splurge on a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Nintendo recently added Game Boy games to the service, and Tetris was part of the first batch. This is the game at its purest: original music, simple visuals, and not even the ability to keep a piece for later use. It also looks very sharp and clean when you set it to GBC color mode and play on the OLED display, which is exactly what the $350 handheld was built for.
Arcade Archives Tetris, Grandmaster
If you don't want to bother with a subscription, Tetris the Grand Master is a good bet. Arcade Archives is a huge collection of classic arcade games ported to both Switch and PS4 — seriously, just look at this giant list — and this is a port of the arcade version of Tetris from 1998. Aesthetically, it's... shall we say interesting , with a pulsating electronic soundtrack and a very backdrops of the 90s. But the gameplay is solid Tetris without unnecessary frills.
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