This year, Tetris celebrates its 40th anniversary! Developed in 1984, the cult game was only released on Game Boy in 1989, after Nintendo obtained exclusive rights thanks to an agreement with the USSR government.

To celebrate this anniversary, Nintendo is offering Switch Online subscribers Tetris (1989) and Tetris DX (1998), in their NES and Game Boy Color versions.

Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, also marked the event by sharing a special message in a video that you can find at the bottom of this article. In it, he warmly thanks fans for their loyalty:

This is the first time Tetris for NES has been available since 1989 [...] I'd like to thank all the fans around the world. You've been part of the Tetris legacy for 40 years and will continue to be for years to come. ‘

This is the perfect opportunity to rediscover this monument to the history of video games, which has also been adapted into a film in 2023. This feature-length film tells the story of Henk Rogers, who risked everything by travelling to the USSR to work with Alexey Pajitnov and introduce Tetris to the whole world.

Finally, if you already own Tetris or Tetris DX, you can still stack the famous bricks on Recalbox or almost any other platform imaginable, as the game has been ported multiple times over the generations of consoles.