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• Adaptation Displacement: The original version was released in 1985. The world-famous Game Boy version was released four years later.
• And the Fandom Rejoiced: The Game Boy version getting a rerelease for the Nintendo 3DS.
• Complaining about People Not Liking the Show + Nostalgia Filter: Not thinking that the NES and Game Boy versions of Tetris are the best Tetris games tends to grind some people's gears.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Achieving the Grand Master rank in any of the TGM games, especially in TGM 2 and especially in TGM 3.
  • The Game Boy version has its own form of this: beating Level 9, High 5.
• Ear Worm: One word: "Korobeiniki," as catchily arranged by Hip Tanaka.
  • Recommendations: The Red Army Choir's orchestral arrangement, the Ozma version, and the one with lyrics.
  • I am the man / Who arranges the blocks / As they descent on me / From up above. / They come down / And I spin them around / 'Til they fit in the ground / Like hand in glove.
  • Pretty much every song from Tetrisphere.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: The L block.
• First Installment Wins: Any time someone brings up Tetris, the Game Boy and NES versions almost always come to mind. Subverted at the same time, in that these aren't the original versions; the first version of Tetris was released on an Elektronika-60 computer in 1985.
• Five-Man Band: Yes, some tropers in this site think there is one.
  • The Hero - Straight line (for great four-lines glory!)
  • The Lancer - L-shape (also an Ensemble Darkhorse, apparently)
  • The Big Guy - Square
  • The Smart Guy - T-shape (always handy - for T-Spin glory!)
  • The Chick - S-shape (look at those curves!)
    • Two Girls to a Team: There are two of those.
• Game Breaker: The 2001 changes to the Tetris Guideline: infinite spin, the Super Rotation System, and the pattern that the new randomizer allows.
• Memetic Badass: The L block is shaped like a boot to kick your ass! It steals Tetrises from the I block! It killed Link and Cloud in the GameFAQs character battle! And so forth!
  • The I block has it, too, mostly because it's the only one that can get a Tetris.
• The Scrappy: S- and Z-blocks.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The infinite spin in place circa Tetris Worlds, to serious players.