The best launch titles ever: Tetris on Game Boy

This week it seemed appropriate to look back at some of our favourite launch titles ever. And we're starting with a classic.

One of the weird things about Tetris is that, even if you ignore the incremental additions to the game over the years, like the hold space and hard and soft drops, each version of Tetris really feels different. Different in a way that is hard to pin down, as if each machine is haunted by a different ghost.

Glowing green and letting out a surprising digital raspberry whenever you lose, the Game Boy's Tetris may be the most characterful - a wilful, often cruel Tetris, and rightly so. After all, this version, bundled with Nintendo's handheld masterpiece, has probably introduced more people to Alexei Pajitnov's beautiful game than any other.

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