{"id":41775,"date":"2024-01-15T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41775"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:22:46","slug":"are-there-any-tetris-games-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/are-there-any-tetris-games-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/01\/11\/tetris-for-mac\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/01\/11\/tetris-for-mac\"><p>Not much has changed from 2018. There is an officially licensed game in the Mac App Store now: <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tetris-beat\/id1536485727\">Tetris Beat<\/a>. It&rsquo;s part of Apple Arcade, so most of you can probably download it and play it. It&rsquo;s not just plain Tetris&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;and whatever it is that it wants to be, it sucks. It doesn&rsquo;t even let you customize the controls. It occupies 2.3 GB on disk after installation. For Tetris! Jiminy. <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/01\/11\/wirth-plea-for-lean-software\">Niklaus Wirth would be rolling over<\/a> in his (<a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/01\/11\/niklaus-wirth-rip\">fresh<\/a>) grave if you told him a Tetris game took 2.3 GB on disk and made the fans get loud on an Apple silicon MacBook Pro when you play it.<\/p><p>The best options for just playing Tetris on a Mac are web games: <a href=\"https:\/\/tetr.io\/\">Tetr.io<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jstris.jezevec10.com\/\">Jstris<\/a>. (I presume both websites are hosted in countries outside the reach of litigious The Tetris Company.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plus the <a href=\"https:\/\/tetris.com\/play-tetris\">official Web version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/niklaus-wirth-rip\/\">Niklaus Wirth, RIP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/apples-mac-gaming-push\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Mac Gaming Push<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/farewell-tetris\/\">Farewell, Tetris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/tetris-entitlements\/\">Tetris Entitlements<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"are-there-any-tetris-games-for-mac-update-2024-02-01\">Update (2024-02-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbang.social\/@freehours9\/111762278433422875\">Freehours9<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bitbang.social\/@freehours9\/111762278433422875\">\n<p>My all time favorite will always be <a href=\"https:\/\/tetris.wiki\/Tetris_Max\">Tetris Max<\/a> on classic Mac OS. I play in emulated Mac OS 9 in SheepShaver.<\/p>\n<p>Then <a href=\"https:\/\/tetris.wiki\/Quinn\">Quinn<\/a> on Mac OS X. I still run Tiger in UTM to play.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: Not much has changed from 2018. There is an officially licensed game in the Mac App Store now: Tetris Beat. It&rsquo;s part of Apple Arcade, so most of you can probably download it and play it. It&rsquo;s not just plain Tetris&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;and whatever it is that it wants to be, it sucks. It doesn&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-01-15T20:59:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"b583022d-e88a-47b5-988e-5935fd47c6bc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-01T15:22:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtYMCLeiKR7WYjlk1_UfGvA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1787,418,30,32,2385,1662,96],"class_list":["post-41775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-arcade","tag-game","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-tetris","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41964,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41775\/revisions\/41964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}