Tetris & its sequels from Spectrum HoloByte - DOS Nostalgia

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@7:45 Tetris Classic FTW ! I *loved* this version! Beautiful backgrounds and great music.

[@rodrigosebastianpagano8198]

Tetris Classic is the best iteration of Tetris ever. A personal fav. And that music! I was obsessed with the highscore theme, I even learned it and played it on my guitar all the time.

[@dosnostalgic]

I love the soundtrack as well. Have it handy outside of the game to listen to ever now and again. Too bad most of the tunes are really short.

[@GameplayandTalk]

Haha, oh man, Knight Moves.. I had that game in the mid '90s. It was.. interesting, to say the least. As far as the DOS Tetris games, Tetris Classic was the one I played the most as well.

[@triiistone]

Greatest puzzle game ever conceived. Awesome review per usual, Sir.

[@DrCorndog1]

I remember seeing all these weird Tetris sequels on store shelves, and now, 30 years later, I can finally see how they play.

[@tenchimasake]

I have Tetris Gold, and often wondered why Spectrum Holobyte's awesome Tetris releases aren't talked about more. To me, Tetris Classic is the definitive presentation of Tetris.

[@Glacier_Nester]

There was also another game with Pajitnov's name on it published by Spectrum, called Clockwerx (Spin Doctor if it was on Windows), and I have fond memories of it from childhood. Nice video, I never knew super tetris, as well as welltris, existed!

[@DrCorndog1]

I love how they credited Pajitnov on the title screen of Tetris here.

[@DavidXNewton]

There was a "true" 3D Tetris game I had which I think was called Block Out - in that you had to fill in the layers of a pit viewed from the top, not the odd 2D-3D hybrid of the official game. I remember it being a competent game, but at higher difficulties it was just impossible to bend your brain around remembering where everything was.

[@dosnostalgic]

+DavidXNewton There are so many 3D Tetris games. There's even one where the pit is actually a 3D sphere. The name escapes me right now.

[@AmayirotAkago]

There was another Spectrum Holobyte game called Breakthru that had Alexey's endorsement on the box. Interesting video, nice to see you doing this sorta thing :) Super Tetris always weirded me out as a kid with the bombs and the unusual backgrounds.

[@andystandys]

I still play Tetris Classic on my retro Tandys. I love it.

[@DavidXNewton]

Nice, I had no idea there were so many variants tried shortly after the game was released! Facetris Tris 3? looks particularly unworkable, I can't see how it would make for a fair challenge. And interesting to have the USSR perspective from someone who grew up there.

[@istvanbalogh2033]

Great video. Tetris forever !

[@Calculon1712]

Spectrum Holobyte. To me known for making my favourite Star Trek game ever, A Final Unity.

[@dosnostalgic]

That's the game the logo in the beginning of the video came from. :)

[@Calculon1712]

+DOS Nostalgia i thought I recognised it haha

[@realjoker1568]

There was anMSDOS tetris inspired game with pieces "falling" sidewise and not from top to bottom... I cannot recall the name, though... anyone?

[@ziggy1019]

what is the song playing in 3:04 ?

[@dosnostalgic]

Russian folk song "Katyusha"

[@srgk4430]

In fact, it's not a folk song, it was written in USSR Music: Matvei Blanter Lyrics: Mikhail Isakovsky First recoring was made in 1939

[@elbincenisev4563]

Yo are we not going to address 6:40's background? Nothing makes puzzle games quite as exciting as having a derpy lion biting off a woman's head. We have much to learn from the past!

[@roadkill_52]

It's a communist lion

[@sacredbanana]

I love the Soviet Union

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

Tetris. My fav game. Renember Ed playing all those versions in a old computer. I prefer the first one. Tetris classic has the best control but suffers from 2 small problems. After achieve maximum score the score locks to 999999. The speed in the latter levels is slower than the original tetris.. Still I must admit that latter versions of tetris were cash grab. We could only saw something interesting in the genre when tetris grand Master series from afrika appeared. I still prefer the originals, but I must admit that the mechanics are amazing

[@AndreasLindholm]

Why not go looking at California Dreams Block Out

[@ilembitov]

Funny how you pronounce all the Russian names with an English accent even though you speak Russian (AFAIK). I tend to do the same thing though, kind of hard to switch between different phonetics.

[@dosnostalgic]

+Ilya Ilembitov I do that intentionally. Just like when I say non-Slavic names when I speak Russian, I pronounce them like a Russian would.

[@mrLumen2]

играБ тетрис .... facepalm//

[@dosnostalgic]

Welltris has worse ones.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Thank you Russia. Thank you so much.

[@kellerkind6169]

356th =)