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V-Tetris (Ｖ－テトリス) is a 1995 falling-tile puzzle video game published by Bullet-Proof Software in Japan for the Virtual Boy.

Development and release
V-Tetris was published by Bullet-Proof Software, best-known for creating the widely-successful Game Boy conversion of Tetris. The company felt that producing a Tetris game for the Virtual Boy would make it appeal to a wider audience, and wanted to keep the game's simplicity as a way to "respect" the original's legacy. The core gameplay was altered to make use of the system's 3D hardware capabilities, as a way to create a sense of depth. The development team wanted the game to feel fresh and new with its additional content, while still keeping the familiarity of the original Tetris. Development itself was handled by Japanese studio Locomotive, with Bullet-Proof supervising the project. It was intended to be released as a system launch title and to feature support for the then-upcoming Link Cable peripheral, which due to the system's short lifespan was never released.

V-Tetris was first announced in June 1995, under the working title of V1-Tetris. It was later released in Japan on August 25 of that year. Although it was never officially released in North America, thousands of copies were imported by video game and electronics retailer Electronics Boutique in 1996 and sold for $10, alongside several other Japan-exclusive games for the console.