Happy Birthday Tetris! Google Tetris June 6, 2009

Happy Birthday Tetris! Google Tetris June 6, 2009

The Russian puzzle and Nintendo videogame: Tetris (Тетрис) designed by Alexey Pajitnov, celebrates it’s 25 birthday! Pajitnov created Tetrison June 6, 1984, after his favorite spot tennis at the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. The word Tetris is derived from the Greek numerical prefix “tetra Tetrominoes,” which contain four segments. Tetris in the 1980s was sold to various home computer platforms, such as Game Boy in 1989 which launched it’s  established the reputation of the game as one of the most popular ever!

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