It doesn’t show the next brick. It doesn’t speed up as you keep playing. The fatal flaw is that it doesn’t play the Tetris theme in the background. But it is tiny, and it is playable.

ABOVE: Tetris is displayed on the Sphere in Las Vegas ... time of what’s referred to as a “TAS,” or “tool-assisted speed run.” To figure out the TAS time, players use game emulators ...

The speed increases after a certain number of lines are cleared. This is similar to other standard Tetris modes available in other games. Advertisement N-Blox is similar to Tetris 1989.

Without wishing to diminish Pajitnov's astounding work, Tetris feels less like something ... it certainly helps a lot when the game picks up speed) but hasn't always been a feature.

having hit the maximum speed level and not really struggling to stay alive. I’d never felt a craving for the sweet release of death while playing Tetris before (you can see me pulling my own ...