There’s no question that few games – not just videogames, but games, pure and simple – have achieved the ubiquity of Tetris, the addictive falling-block puzzle videogame created in 1984 by Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. It has since gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies and been ported to practically every computer system since.
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