Where Did Tetris Come From?
Tetris was born in the Soviet Union in 1984, created by a Russian software engineer named Alexey Pajitnov. Pretty awesome, right?
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A Russian computer scientist, Alexey Pajitnov, developed Tetris in 1984 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
I read once that Tetris was invented in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov, who got the idea from a puzzle game involving pentominoes.
The USSR...yes, really!
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