The game Tetris grandmaster, considered the most difficult Tetris game in the world, is going to be adapted to console, more than 20 years after its release. Released in 1998, Tetris Grand Master has no less than 999 levels of small colored bricks to stack on top of each other without filling up the screen.
The specialized site VideoGamesChronicle indicates that this game is the first Tetris that has integrated the G20 gravity level, which means that, after a certain level, the bricks appear directly on the ground and the player has just half a second to move them before they hit. they freeze. . Players are assigned a rank upon completion, ranging from number 9 to the title of “Grandmaster”, as the game’s name suggests.
Available on Switch and PS4
The game will be available for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, as part of the Arcade Game Archive series from Japanese video game publisher Hamster Corporation. This publisher, specializing in arcade games, has adapted a retro game on Switch every week without exception since the launch of the console in 2017. The adaptation of Tetris Grand Master celebrates the 300th game thus published. The information was also confirmed by Arika, the original developer of the game.
“We are pleased to announce that we have obtained the license from Hamster Corporation to port Tetris Grand Master to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The port has yet to receive an official release date. When it appeared in 1998, Tetris grandmaster it was available in arcades in Japan, but was never exported internationally or to home consoles.
However, the Tetris franchise is very popular and ranks very high among the most played games of all time with several hundred million copies sold or downloaded. It was also at the top of this ranking before being supplanted by the game, also made of bricks, Minecraft.
Source: BFM TV
