weird to think that the version of tetris you see all over the news right now, basically The Tetris Game to US players, is not commercially available, but two japan-only arcade tetris games that were not ported to consoles for decades are available on ps4 and switch
I was guy who had neither a NES or GB growing up. What we did have instead was a warez-y copy of a DOS game called Zentris.
Zentris is fascinating because it is nearly identical in play style (drop, rotation) to the Sega Tetris structure that was then adapted into the Arika Grand Master series. It doesn't have any ranking beyond the score system, but it does have a demo mode that shows off a high-level play recognizable to anyone who's seen runs of the TGM games.
This is, fundamentally, Tetris to me, and it being so close in feel to the arcade games is probably a key reason why I've bounced off of nearly every other version of Tetris out there.
(Even ZenSoft's later sequels don't get the feel right, IMO. Too loose in how the pieces move. It's tragic that the registered version is available nowhere, even from the publisher.)