Tetris Forever includes a new game with a time-warping twist

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Tetris has had too many variants to count during its lifetime, but the latest installment of the series is unlike any of them. Tetris Foreveris a playable documentary from Digital Eclipse, the team behind this year’sLlamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, which includes several classic games. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive collection bringing together every game in the series. Rather, it’s an interactive history lesson filled with archival material, original interviews, and a selection of games that tell its story.

When it releases on November 12, players will be able to dive into obscure titles like Hatris and Super Bombliss alongside standard Tetris. There’s one big twist coming in the package though: Tetris Time Warp. The new game is an original creation by Digital Eclipse that’s a sort of playable extension of its documentary efforts. Ahead of its release, Digital Trends got a closer look at Tetris Forever and its wealth of historical material. Our hands-on session included a few rounds ofTetris Time Warp, a charming project that’s only making a must-own package even more enticing.

Let’s do the Time Warp again

If you’ve played The Making of Karateka or Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, you should know what to expect with Tetris Forever. The project is laid out into five chapters, each one containing an interactive timeline. If you follow that from start to finish, you’ll get a full history lesson on Alexey Pajitnov and how Tetris came to be. The project doesn’t just tell that now familiar story, though. As I poked through the timelines, I found a lot of surprising references. One slide showcasedPokémon Tetris, an oddball spinoff made for the even-odder Pokémon Mini. Another showed McDonald’s recent chicken nugget handheld, which could run Tetris.

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