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Monday, June 08, 2009

happy birthday tetris!


25 and still counting

25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun!
By Scott Olstad
Sputnik burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city, but 25 years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous video games ever created. It has sold over 125 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two decades and even been played on the side of a skyscraper. Yet creator Alexey Pajitnov almost never saw a ruble for his creation. While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer.................

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The puzzle video game Tetris is played at a barcade in Brooklyn, New York.
Mark Lennihan / AP

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