What is Reddit's opinion of TETRIS?

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To save anyone else the hassle, /u/FasterThanTW is right. Here's the permissions for TETRIS v2.2.14:

> In-app purchases

> Photos/Media/Files
> read the contents of your USB storage
> modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

> Storage
> read the contents of your USB storage
> modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

> Wi-Fi connection information
> view Wi-Fi connections

> Other
> receive data from Internet
> view network connections
> full network access
> use accounts on the device
> prevent device from sleeping
> Google Play license check

The same version can be had on Android using the Play Store. I'd agree that it's probably the best official iteration of Tetris on mobile, with the caveat that the game is a chore at best when using touch-screen controls.

Going off of /u/Im_French's suggestion of an emulator, I've had good experiences with playing NES Tetris using the on-screen gamepad. If EA's version of Tetris isn't your speed, that might be something to consider.

i dont have android, but the version i play is on the google play store. here's the link it's a little buggy on my phone but hopefully it runs smooth in yours

I thought EA had the rights...at least that's who releases games on Android

here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.tetris2011_na

This version is also available for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.tetris2011_na

Basically, there are 3 ways to play Tetris on a smartphone. I consider all of them suboptimal:

• one-touch: About 5 options for the final piece placement are shown. The player has to decide between these options or hit the "Cycle" button which gives the next 5 options. One problem is that the player doesn't have to imagine how the active piece looks like when it is rotated and doesn't have to find a good spot for the piece. All that is done automatically. Another problem is that you often want to drop a piece somewhere else, especially when you want to prepare a T-Spin. Yet another problem is that you don't know how often you have to hit the Cycle button before the desired option shows up. With gravity or limited time (e.g. Ultra), you'll often have not enough time to use the Cycle button and go for a suboptimal piece placement.
• on-screen buttons: Basically, it's the same way as normal Tetris works but you hit virtual buttons (displayed on the screen) instead of real ones. You can't play as fast as with real buttons and the controles feel imprecise.
• (s)wiping: I hope this is the English word for what I mean. If you want to rotate, you tap on the screen somewhere. If you want to move your piece left or right, you make a horizontal swipe movement. If you want to drop a piece, you make a vertical swipe movement (in some games double tap will also work). This way of controling the pieces is very imprecise and slower as with on-screen buttons. Also you can only rotate in one direction (usually clockwise).

A grandmaster port would probably work best with (s)wiping because "dropping a piece" is barely needed in 20g gravity. Problem would be that you can rotate the piece in only one direction and that modes with significant gravity don't work well with smartphones imo.

I would recommend playing Tetris on another platform. You simply need buttons to play Tetris. If you still want to play Tetris on a smartphone (Android), then here are some titles that I consider not too bad:

• Dream of Pixels: This is some kind of reversed Tetris. You remove Tetromino-shaped pieces from a cloud. With distance the best one-touch Tetris title I know. Also has a puzzle mode.
• Tetris Pure: A fast fan-made game with bots and on-screen buttons.
• EA Tetris: Not to be confused with Tetris Blitz (which is just a pay-to-win game). EA made it harder to find after Tetris Blitz was released. The only mode I enjoyed was Galaxy which is a downstack mode with cascades (sticky gravity).
• Tetris Monster: This is a Japan-exlusive title by EA. It's only available in Japanese and you have to download it via QooApp in order to play it. It's a bit like Puzzle & Dragons (a RPG game with pokemon-like monsters). You have to collect monsters and combine monsters to get stronger monsters, and there are 7 kinds of monsters which have strengths and weaknesses against other kinds (e.g. red/fire is good against green/nature). 4 of your monsters will fight in a battle which has a system based on Tetris. Completed lines are moved to the bottom in the matrix but aren't removed. When your screen is filled, you unleash an attack. The more lines you cleared, the more monsters will attack. The attacks of your monsters become stronger if you make Tetrises & T-Spins or if you play fast. Probably, it sounds better than it is in reality. Also sadly, EA worsened the game with patches to earn more money from it. The campaign can be completed with 5-stars monsters but now you can get some 9 to 11 stars monsters (the strongest monsters in the game) at the very start.

Last but not last there are emulators with which you can play the classic Tetris titles (eg. GameBoy, NES or SNES) with on-screen buttons.

PS: Henk Rogers founded the company "Blue Lava Wireless" to manage the mobile Tetris rights. In 2005 JAMDAT bought Blue Lava Wireless for 137 million dollar, and acquired with it a 15 years-lasting exclusive license for mobile Tetris. In the same year JAMDAT was bough by EA, so EA owns the exclusive mobile Tetris rights until around 2020.

Linkme: Umpossible, Cytus, Starlink, Tetris, Auralux

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Wrong Tetris link. Here's the one I play

> An ad-supported, officially licensed mobile Tetris would print money.

That already exists.

• Android (1), (2)
• iOS (1), (2)

Would something like this not fit the bill? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.tetris2011_na