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Tetris video game turns 25 today: happy birthday!

by Amy Judd | June 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm

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One of the most famous video games in the world, Tetris, turns 25 years old today!

With the slogan 'From Russia with Fun', Tetris was designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov on June 6, 1984 in Moscow, Russia.

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.[5] It has even been played on the sides of various buildings,[6][7] 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.[8][9]

The name comes from the Greek word 'tetra' and 'tennis', which was Pajitnov's favourite sport.

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A. Tran

at 14:04 on June 6th, 2009

Google also celebrates Tetris on its search page.

sivakaran

at 09:29 on June 8th, 2009

Tetris must be the game played by most number of people. I don't think you can find single person over the age of 20, who played at least one computer game that did not play Tetris.

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at 09:33 on June 11th, 2009

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