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The most classical mobile phone game - Tetris

Nowadays, mobile games are becoming more and more popular. The latest surveys show that there are almost 63 million mobile game players in the US, accounting for 35% of the entire mobile phone users. The surveys indicate women occupy half amount of the mobile game players. The average age of those players is higher than PC game player.

It’s no doubt that the most popular cell phone game is Tetris. It was the hugely successful handheld version for the Game Boy launched in 1989 that established the reputation of the game as one of the most popular ever, with more than 60 million players worldwide.

Tetris is a falling-blocks puzzle game, as one of the few games that achieve ultimate popularity. It is remarkably simple, yet remarkably difficult. The level increase is reflected in the speed of the falling blocks. And the game ends once you can no longer react quickly enough to arrange the Tetris so that you can wipe out the lines and prevent its piling to the top.

Captivating, fun and addicting, the game is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players and PDAs.

As launch day buyers of Nintendo’s original 1989 Game Boys, we’re on record as being long-time fans of Tetris, the Russian block-dropping game that helped to spark a portable gaming revolution. We’ve also enjoyed many of the game’s official sequels and semi-sequels, particularly the excellent titles Bombliss and Tetrisphere, and as we know Tetris has received a huge overhaul from the original iPod game. The Tetris is now bigger, more detailed, and more colorfully framed than before, with cool little touches of animation during level-to-level transitions; similarly, the music is better, more upbeat, and interestingly composed. The latest mobile Tetris adds multiplayer to the fun. Playing against a friend over a wireless network, or battling the computer in your phone, is extremely cool.

As we all have preferences, none of them have stopped us from going back and enjoying the game that started it all. The favorite one for some people will still be the Game boy’s original Tetris. Probably, any new game can hardly be better than the first one we have accepted.