If you haven't already noticed, Google has transformed their logo to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the the epic release of Tetris. The building block video puzzle game was originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov, created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.
The game quickly rose to cult classic status when Game Boy launched in 1989, establishing Tetris as one of the most popular video games ever. Alexey Pajitnov derived the the name from the Greek numerical prefix "tetra- (all of the game's pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
Tetris for iPhone is available in the App Store for $4.99 from Electronic Arts, though I prefer my legendary copy of "Tris", the Tetris clone app created by Noah Witherspoon. The wildly popular Tris for iPhone which originally launched with the App Store on July 11, 2008 was later yanked down for copyright infringement issues.
All hail Tetris!
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Posted by: Margaret | July 30, 2009 at 07:01 AM