News: Tetris Turns 25

[News Bot]

teh.f4ll3n writes "25 years ago a Russian (Soviet) researcher thought of one of the world's most popular games. It is now that we celebrate its 25th anniversary. 'Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer — the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 — and began writing programs for it.'"


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[Svarog]

The father of all casual games

[PSY]

Lol, already 25 years? o.0

[Jimmy B]

Tetris is dead! Long live Tetris!

[Haxtor Moogle]

makes me want to build one of these tetris gesture glove

[sebasrb]

TETRIS I love tetris i still play it every day

[Skateboard T]

WTF is Tetris???????!!!!!?????

[sebasrb]

Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix "tetra- (all of the game's pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.

The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes. It has even been played on the sides of various buildings, with the record holder for the world's largest fully functional game of Tetris being an effort by Dutch students in 1995 that lit up all 15 floors of the Electrical Engineering department at Delft University of Technology.

While versions of Tetris were sold for a range of 1980s home computer platforms, it was the hugely successful handheld version for the Game Boy launched in 1989 that established the reputation of the game as one of the most popular ever. Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100th issue had Tetris in first place as "Greatest Game of All Time". In 2007, Tetris came in second place in IGN's "100 Greatest Video Games of All Time". It has sold more than 70 million copies.

source: wikipedia

[PSY]

Originally Posted by Skateboard T

WTF is Tetris???????!!!!!?????

Play it and see for yourself .
PLAY TETRIS

[Svarog]

The most sad part of the story is that Pajitnov himself got neither money nor glory from it. Some russian geeks know his name, but it's far from the world-wide fame of Rubik, for example.