History of video games/Games/Tetris

History

Tetris is a falling block puzzle game developed by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984.^[1] It is perhaps the best known video game to have originated in the Soviet Union.

Gallery

A screenshot from a Tetris clone.
Tetrominos, known as tetriminos in the Tetris community, the basic blocks of Tetris.
Tetriminos in Tetris.
The Electronika 60, the first computer to run Tetris.
Tetris running on a Game Boy.
Tetris on an iPod.
Alexey Pajitnov in 2008.

References

Wikipedia has related information at Tetris

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↑ Jacopo, Prisco. "Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world" (in en). CNN. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tetris-video-game-history/index.html.

[1] Jacopo, Prisco. "Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world" (in en). CNN. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tetris-video-game-history/index.html.

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