Tetrisk
An MS-DOS falling-blocks game where you steer two pieces in two wells at once.
About
Two pieces fall at once, one in each of two wells, and you steer them together. The left and right arrow keys move both pieces, up rotates both, and down drops them faster, so every move has to work in both wells at the same time.
The wells sit in a circuit board, between LED panels that scroll messages and count the score. The graphics were painted in Deluxe Paint for VGA's 320x200, 256-colour mode, and the game runs in the browser in an MS-DOS emulator, with nothing to install.
The game
Two wells
One set of controls moves a piece in each well, so a good move on one side can be a bad one on the other.
MS-DOS
A real MS-DOS program from 1994, drawn in VGA mode 13h, running unchanged in the emulator.
In the browser
Press Play at tetrisk.org and it starts straight away, on any computer with a keyboard.
Articles
- Tetrisk - How it works: the wells and pieces, the LED message, the score, the Lissajous figure and the cursor
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