Happy 25th Birthday Tetris
by Tom on Jun.06, 2009, under News
The game that made our life complete as kids, i remember sitting there playing this on my black and white brick sized game-boy, oh the good old days.
25 amazing years of Tetris, and the millions of variations was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
It has sold over 70 million copies, and was first available on the IBM computer, but didn’t become worldwide until it hit the game-boy in 1989 (shown left).
Pajitnov came up with the name Tetris by combining the words “tennis”, his favourite sport, and “tetra”, a Greek prefix. The variously shaped groups of blocks that fall down the screen are called tetrominoes.
want to remember the good old days? then get a coffee sit back and prep your hands on the arrow keys, here’s neave’s remake.
Tetris today, still makes it into jokes for such shows as family guy:
