Since its first release nearly 40 years ago, Tetris has gone on to become the most ported game that’s available on over 60 different platforms. It’s no surprise then that while there are several graphical variants for Tetris available for Linux, you could also partake in the block-laying shenanigans from the comfort of your terminal.
Released under the MIT licence, AWKTC – a recursive acronym for AWKTC is Workable Klutzy Time-wasting Command – is a nifty little implementation written in Awk. You won’t find AWKTC in the software repos of Linux distros, but don’t let that bother you since the game actually doesn’t require installation, as long as you have gawk installed on your machine, along with the GNU CoreUtils package.