Pit Blocks 3D revives a Virtual Boy gem for PC

Nintendo’s ’90s experiment with virtual reality, the Virtual Boy, is often the butt of jokes. But the doomed portable system had some great games. 3D Tetris, literally a three-dimensional take on the classic puzzler games, was one of them. And now Pit Blocks 3D is going to bring that same flavor of block-dropping to PC (but not VR) when it releases on September 27.

Just like with 3D Tetris, Pit Blocks 3D adds an extra dimension to the Tetris formula. You don’t just use falling blocks to create lines. You need to fill in entire layers of a 3D grid. The Tetris series has sold over 170 million games (physically and digitally) since debuting in 1984. Pit Blocks 3D may not be an actual Tetris game, but it can still attract fans of the puzzle series. And while Tetris has many imitators, few (if any) put the mechanics into 3D.