Play Classic Microsoft Tetris for Windows 3.11 in Your Browser
If you’re a longtime computer user and a Tetris fan, you might remember, long ago in a land far far away, when Microsoft released Tetris for Windows 3.11. But you don’t need to dust off your 1990 PC and a handful of old floppy disks from the attic to relive this experience, because now the Internet Archive offers the full vintage puzzle game and it’s playable right in your web browser.
This is the full version of Microsoft’s licensed Tetris, running in a Windows 3.11 emulator, which was originally bundled as part of the Windows Entertainment Pack for Windows 3 back in 1990. It’s the original game, in the original Windows, not a modern remake or flashback clone. You’ll get all the classic fun block dropping and shape rotating gameplay with accelerating speeds in one of the greatest puzzle games of all time. Who didn’t love Tetris?
You can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to rotate the block shapes, gameplay is simple, but that doesn’t mean the game is, as you surely remember.
Tetris offers incredible nostalgic value, but it’s also considered one of the best video games that has ever been made. Born out of the former Soviet Union in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov (the origin of Tetris is kind of a fun story with an entertaining Hollywood movie made recently), the game has been ported over to many other platforms, and many in the USA and Japan were introduced to Tetris through this Windows version or the Nintendo Gameboy.
Transport back to the golden days of retro desktop gaming with one of the most celebrated video games of all time, right from your browser.
Have fun, explore some more retro stuff, and Happy New Year!
