"Tetris Blitz" -- a classic reworked for the free-to-play, social network age. (All rights reserved - Electronic Arts)

Compulsive classic Tetris is soon to arrive on smartphones in the form of the free-to-play Tetris Blitz, compressing the block-dropping puzzler into bite-size 60-second chunks.

The base game is free and, much like Electronic Arts' 2011 mobile version of Tetris, various power-ups are offered in exchange for in-app purchases.

The Russian-developed original was a huge hit in the 1980s, the Angry Birds of its day, and best known in its portable, monochrome incarnation on the Nintendo Game Boy.

EA's modern version swaps button bashing for touch controls, with Drag and Place and Swipe available and Facebook Connect integration installed.

Facebook community: facebook.com/tetris