Tuesday, 7. June 2016
Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris
Tetris turns 32 today. Here's the remarkable and strange story of how this classic game was born. This article originally ran at Den of Geek UK. We're bringing back this article in honor of the 32nd anniversary of Tetris. Somewhere in Moscow in 1984, 29-year-old computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov sat at his work station, deep within a building called the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Here, in front of his hulking computer, an Elektronika 60, Pajitnov was working on one of his latest programs. If you’d been one of his superiors, Pajitnov would have told you that he was examining its code for bugs. But in reality, he was addicted.
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