ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2026 Entry 9th September 2026: Post 1: Tetris - Underground PD titles. Tetris - Underground PD titles. Recently someone asked on the forum if they recall a PD version of the game Tetris which featured some rubbish clearing activities and lights going out. I must confess it did not ring any bells with me, so nothing for it but to pull the Tetris disk box and have a look through. Eventually I did find the likely candidate in the form of TETREN and sure enough the guy confirmed as much. Never played it before and not sure I ever will again. As you would expect the game of Tetris was ravaged by those that liked to mimic games and push them out across the PD world. Most were simple copies with embellished interfaces. There were some quite interesting exceptions where the Tetris pieces were broken down into individual components that could be modified and give additional significance. I'm sure I have more Tetris games. Trouble is they changed the names and listed them with other PD titles so unless I specifically located a Tetris style game on a disk it probably never made the index listing so I would never know it was there. My search is structured around the disk title. Anyhoo the name of the bonkers game of Tetris that forces players to play in the dark is TETREN written by Andrew Whiteley. You can download the PD games from Aminet. For those wanting to check out my collection I have provided downloads for your amusement. Be aware that some disks only work with certain Workbench versions. Some need the 1MB memory. Some hate Workbench 3.0. Some need AGA. Some need the original manual for the password. One I couldn't get to work. I copied it from two different disks but neither worked. I was going to try again but to be honest by end of play I had had enough of Tetris. Tetris is a Russian video game created by Alexey Pajitnov who was given the challenge as a software engineer to bring down western society by infecting computers with a game so addictive that users would ignore the fact that the game was 'alf inching trade secrets. I can't back any of that up as its a blatant fib. What is very interesting is that it was created in Pascal for an Elektronika 60 which is an amazing bit of kit that I sense is somewhat rare. Not likely to get one into the collection I fear. How the game was licensed to Microsoft is nothing short of a computer miracle. Anyhoo here are 12 PD disks obtained legitimately of various versions. Heads up that if you don't enter/edit the player name in Tetren you will never enter the game. The selection may bounce around randomly. Depends which Workbench you are using. DISKS TO DOWNLOAD in heavy print Dr Mario Giger Tetris HotBlox Klaktris Supertetris - copyright Tetrem Tetris - copyright Tetris AGA Tetris Pro Tettrix Twintris Welltris - copyright Tetris - Underground PD titles.

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