Tetris Turns 25

Tetris has been around now for 25 years. This delinquent game that made a world sensation has a rich storied history. Things were very much different 25 years ago, the Cold War was still on and tittering at the edges was reform in the winds. Russia was trying to find a new identity in the new world. A Soviet-built Elektronika 60 was the breeding ground for Tetris, a stolen copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP -11. Those Russian spies were working extra hard back then. The computer was commissioned for the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Alexey Pajitnov was the recipient of this technology. Since he created the game on company time, Tetris became Russian property and was licensed to Nintendo when Game Boy came out and sold over 35 million copies. The rights to the game has reversed to Alexey since the fall of Communist Russian and is as popular as it was 25 years ago. Many will say the intellectual part of the human brain is increased ever-fold when people reach higher levels of the game as the brain is over stimulated with Tetris. The game’s simplicity blocked shapes has a universal appeal that will go on as chess and checkers has for centuries.  Read more>>

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