Awesome Tetris

Get your brick on every morning with some delicious Tetrimino-shaped waffles. This official Tetris waffle maker cranks out seven interlocking puzzle pieces, encouraging you to play with your food at the breakfast table. Earn bonus points for adding food coloring to the individual waffles.

The theme music from Tetris is a big part of what made the video game so popular. Musician JER of the Skatune Network and We Are the Union transformed the classic Russian chiptune into an energetic piece of ska, with its trademark quick beats, layered brass, and organ sounds.

Originally known as Setris, the puzzle game Sandtrix is a unique Tetris variant where the blocks are made out of sand, so they crumble on impact. It adds a new dimension to the classic puzzler and is surprisingly fun to play. There’s a web version, or you can download it for Windows or Linux on Itch.io.

Before you start scratching your head, Tetris doesn’t feature a bunch of animated anthropomorphic puzzle blocks. Instead, it’s based on the true story of the man who invented it, the publisher who discovered it, and the hurdles he faced in licensing it from the USSR for Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld. Coming to Apple TV+ 3.31.23.

Franzoli Electronics has entertained us with performances of Around the World and Megalovania on tesla coils. This time, they played a version of Korobeiniki, commonly known as the Tetris theme song. We’re picturing those blocks dropping into place and being zapped into oblivion by lightning as each level is cleared.

C4D4U seems to have an obsession with Tetris. A while back, the CG artist showed us what the game might look like with puzzle pieces made from Jell-O, and now we get to see what happens when those same pieces get moldy and covered with hair. They remind us of Sully from Monsters, Inc.

The 8-Bit Big Band offers up another phenomenal cover of a classic video game tune. This time, they take on block-stacking fun of Tetris, adding a bit of swing and a cinematic flair to the Soviet-era sounds of the theme song.

A chaotic 99-player spin on Tetris. Each line you complete lets you send Garbage Blocks to other players, and vice-versa. You can make your attacks more targeted, and you gain bonuses in attack or defense as you defeat others. (Note: video contains PG-13 language.)

We’ve heard a number of covers of the familiar theme song from Tetris over the years, from bluegrass to dubstep, game fanatic insaneintherainmusic’s jazzy rendition is our favorite yet. Beyond the cool arrangement, the man has some serious sax skills.

Anyone who has every played Tetris knows that the game’s shapes are as straight-edged as they come. But animator C4D4U decided to see what the game might look like if the pieces were made out of Jell-O. We’d only wish we could play this bouncy, squishy version of the game.

Musician Samurai Guitarist created this unusual, but somehow just right cover version of the familiar Russian style theme song from the arcade classic, Tetris. We just wanted to shout Rawhide! at the end.

Rémi Gaillard and his pals dressed up as a set of TETRIS blocks and proceeded to try and fit in wherever they could. They seem to have taken the word “block” too literally, causing traffic jams and other inconveniences along the way.

At the video game marathon cancer fundraiser Awesome Games Done Quick, KevinDDR beat the Master Mode in Tetris: The Grandmaster 3. How hard was it? The final level (it’s at 6:20) had invisible blocks. Whuuuut.

An impressive dubstep cover of the Tetris theme song played on an Ableton Launchpad controller by SoNevable, complete with bricks zipping across the the device’s light up buttons as his fingers go flying across them.

Michael Birken made a software algorithm that creates pixel art while also being a form of pixel art unto itself. Using a modified version of Tetris, the algorithm draws images while actually playing the game. More here.

The classic Russian theme song to Tetris gets a catchy ragtime redo by musician Scott Bradlee. We can close our eyes and visualize countless bricks dropping into perfect lines already.

Artist Chris Carlson specializes in making 3D illusions using pastel chalk, paint and graphite. Watch him play a quick round of amazingly detailed stop motion Tetris. Note the shadows on the blocks.

Let’s take Halloween out with a grin by enjoying Nathan Pryor’s Pumpktris, a fully playable version of Tetris in a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and bonus game controller stem. (Thanks James!)

Japanese stage performer Ouka puts away his rings, and picks up some blocks, for his latest act – a live interpretation of Tetris. He never seems to complete a row though.

It’s not a Hasbro title, but after Battleship we wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if we saw a real trailer for a blockbuster based on Tetris in the near future. Our guess? The Russians are behind it.

We know what you’re thinking – how can you play Tetris with guns? You don’t. But you still get to play it as if you were the brick in this crazy, dizzying, browser-based game. We still want guns, though.

We have a hard enough time keeping from all the Tetris blocks reaching the top before time runs out, but this guy has the time and patience to actually draw Luigi with his puzzle pieces. Mario here.

A recent XKCD strip depicted heaven as a Tetris game with a piece that fits whatever you already built. GUD magazine turned it into an actual game. Get in on the reassuring fun here.