6 June 1984 Alexey Pajitnov first releases Tetris in the USSR. It - TopicsExpress



          

6 June 1984 Alexey Pajitnov first releases Tetris in the USSR. It will go one to become the most popular puzzle game of all time. Pajitnov created Tetris on an Elektronika 60 while working at the Computer Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow with Dmitry Pavlovsky. Programmer Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the more popular IBM PC platform. The game’s name is derived from the Greek prefix “tetra-” because all of the game’s pieces (referred to as Tetrominoes) contain four segments and the English word “tennis,” which is Pajitnov’s favorite sport. Over the coming decades, over seventy million copies of the game will be sold.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:36:07 +0000

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