Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)

Tetris
Publisher(s)Spectrum HoloByte
Mirrorsoft
Programmer(s)
  • IBM CGA
  • Eng An Jio
  • Tandy
  • Billy Sutyono
  • IBM EGA
  • Aryanto Widodo
Artist(s)Dan Guerra
SeriesTetris
Platform(s)
ReleaseMS-DOS
  • UK: January 27, 1988
  • US: January 29, 1988
Apple II
July 1988

Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris, a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems. Tetris received positive reviews overall, winning multiple Excellence in Software Awards, and would eventually sell over one million copies.