This T tetromino rotates infinitely as long as the player does not wait half a second between moves.

Infinity is The Tetris Company's term (citation needed) to refer to a characteristic in recent Tetris Guideline-compliant games where the lock delay of a tetromino is reset whenever it is moved or , for a set number of times or seconds.

The feature usually appears alongside Super Rotation System. However, in a few console games such as Tetris Advance, Tetris: New Century and the GameCube and Xbox versions of Tetris Worlds, the feature can be turned off. Turning Infinity off in Tetris: New Century will revert the game to a step reset lock delay behavior. The feature can also be applied to other rotation systems as well, for instance in Tetris The Grand Master Ace it can be seen applied to the TGM rotation system.

Criticism

Ryan Davis of GameSpot wrote in his review of Tetris Worlds that infinity "actually breaks Tetris".[1] Mike Nowak of the-inbetween.com wrote the same thing about Tetris DS.[2] It has also been parodied on YTMND.[3]

See also

• Guideline compliant game differences