Browser Game Highlight: First-Person Tetris

Written by: Chris McKenna

The Internet has been abuzz this past week with talk of a hot, new browser-based game: First Person Tetris.

Now, you may be saying to yourself: “Tetris? Bah! That is neither hot nor new!”, to which I would respond “You are horribly, horribly mistaken.”

See, First Person Tetris takes the simple puzzle mechanics of the 1984 Soviet hit and flips them, quite literally, on their head.

The game starts out normally, the only initially apparent difference being that you play the game in what appears to be a sparsely-furnished ’80s living room instead of in a full-screen mode. Nothing seems out of the ordinary — until you rotate the puzzle blocks.

As you rotate blocks, your screen rotates as well — making for a very interesting and possibly nausea inducing Tetris experience.

“First Person Tetris” is almost a misnomer; a more apt title might be “Holy-mindfuck-I-need-some-Dramamine Tetris.”

And, for those feeling particularly daring, the designer has included a “Night Mode,” which keeps the same screen-rotating mechanic, but puts the Tetris blocks into black void, with the only point of reference being the other blocks.

With the game mechanics being so strange, at least I have something to blame my horrible Tetris performance on now.