Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)

Tetris, stylized in Russian as TЕТРИС with a reversed "☭", is a puzzle video game created by of the. It was licensed through to  in the United Kingdom and  in the United States. The latter company developed and published versions for the Apple II GS, classic Mac OS, and MS-DOS.

Releases
The MS-DOS version was released in the United States on January 1988. The Apple II GS and monochrome Macintosh versions followed in July 1998. A color version for the Macintosh II series was released in the following December.

Revisions
The original DOS release opened with an animation of a private plane flying across the screen in a reference to the flight of over, which was considered an embarrassment to the. Tetris creator also objected to some militaristic scenes that appeared in the game. These were removed or replaced in subsequent versions.