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Tetris Forever review - the history and spirit of the eternal game

Our review of the gorgeous interactive documentary Tetris Forever.

There have been books and documentaries - foremost among them a wonderful BBC doc called From Russia with Love - and there have been movies and YouTube histories and all that beautiful jazz. It would be a stellar picture in any case - a private moment extracted from a very public life, the mixture of deep concentration and relative frivolity, the neatly buttoned coat and just the hint of a smile of satisfaction forming. You can't play the Game Boy Tetris here or the version for the NES that Nintendo made, whose rounded, hard-candy pieces are forever stamped on my brain.

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