A great Tetris clone. Not only are there different levels of difficulty, but the sounds are brilliant.

Try it, I think you'll like it!

Personally, I think you slightly missed the point here. SDLBlock is a clone of an old (1989) Tetris clone - Blockout. The latter was a great game, at least at the time it was written and released. I ensure you that it was pretty addictive ;-) More information about it on Abandonia.

What's interesting, the original version still has a bunch of very devoted fans. They even have a webpage for submitting high-scores at http://www.blockout.de/. So, obviously there are people who find the interface, and the whole idea of a 3d-Tetris, amusing and enjoyable.
It's hard to expect that a clone will be different from the original - they wanted to reflect an old game, so the old game (and graphics & interface) you get.

Just to make things clear.

The pause would make it to easy to play ;) On high levels after 10-15 minutes of playing, it is an endurance test of your fingers O_^ Or test of psychic powers.. you got so far.. , and now for example a phone, or your parents, or some other accident disturbs your playing, and you have to make a choice ;) no no! Pause would make it all to easy! O_O. Have fun!

You should have mentioned Briquolo - it is the best tetris game on Linux.

Its in 3D (openGL) and one of the power-ups's changes the screen viewpoint to 1st person for 30 secs (i.e - the view from the bat)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/briquolo/

Thanks for the review Robin, they look good. I'm gonna be busy tonight I can see that.

Additions:

tint - linux console tetris

bastet - linux console tetris that hates you - play only if you want to end up headbutting your monitor (ie. only play it at work)

Corrections:

Briquolo isn't tetris; it's breakout.

Netris - http://sourceforge.net/projects/netris
Still under development but the upcoming version should be a big improvement.

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