In a nutshell:

Brick-shifting nostalgia with a healthy coating of graphical spruce.

What’s it good for?

Reminding yourself that the best games are all about strategy, addiction and annoying music.

Judgement time…

Tetris has come a long way since its invention in 1985. If you don’t know all about its addictive gameplay by now, you really shouldn’t be reading this.

As you’d expect, the N-Gage version is true to the original, updating it only in a graphical sense, and with a strangely techno version of the iconic theme tune.

Elsewhere, it seems a bit-for-bit re-make, albeit one that benefits hugely from the speed leveraged by N-Gage’s new platform.

We’re tempted to complain about this, lamenting the lack of new features, add-on bonus challenges and multi-player head to heads, but in keeping itself pure, N-Gage Tetris has actually done itself a favour.

See, the minor tweaks here and there are all that’s needed. The N-Gage version feels light and nimble, and while it offers a few extra niceties (silhouettes of where bricks will land, for instance, along with the often-used shortcut to drop a brick straight down) its charm is in the resistance of programmers to making it a fluffed up or bulky “re-imagining”.

Sure, there are Java versions available, and a few of them are cheaper. But this is real Tetris, not a no-name knock off, and the £6 outlay for the full version on N-Gage is probably justified by the sheer speed on offer here.

Give it a go, and see if that adrenaline rush doesn’t come rushing back. We guarantee, install this and you’ll be having multi-colour brick-based dreams in no time!