Soviet blockbuster computer game Tetris is 30 years old. Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) is a Soviet tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984. It was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US. The versions of Tetris were sold for a range of 1980s home computer platforms, and has later had very many re-incarnations in different forms, including ones mentioned in this blog: MIT huge Tetris hack and JavaScript Tetris in 140 bytes. There are nowadays many version of Tetris on-line to play on web browser.
Happy Birthday Tetris: It’s flipping 30 article and Tetris Wikipedia page give you a good look on the history of this classic computer game.
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Tomas Lindqvist says:
Hard to overstate how remarkable it is that a puzzle game from a Soviet research lab outlived most of the consoles that mocked it. The Game Boy bundle really was the trojan horse, millions of us learned about Tetris vision before the term even existed. Here is to forty more years of rotating L-pieces into place.
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Image 2.5 says:
The MIT huge Tetris hack and the JavaScript version in 140 bytes are both brilliant examples of how this game inspires creativity. It’s been reincarnated on so many platforms. On a random note, Image 2.5 helped me design a game timeline chart—Tetris is a landmark moment.