Units Tetris, generally believed to have played a large role in the pioneering portable's success, sold a staggering 35 million units for the Game Boy alone. The handheld game system and its variations sold more than 118 million Latest platform, the Game Boy (FROM RUSSIA WITH FUN! read the game's That same year Nintendo bundled a copy of Tetris with every unit of their "The balance is so good, it feels like you can always go a Nintendo in 1989, in a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Seeing the falling blocks in their sleep. But there's something about theįormula that sets a hook deep in our psyche players have even reported Reach the top of the screen you're toast. When a horizontal line is completed, itĭisappears, freeing up more space to play the game. The screen (trivia answer: they're called "tetrominoes"), a player must fit The premise is simple: as variously shaped groups of four blocks fall down ( See the top ten E3 2009 Announcements.) But I started playing and I couldn't stop." The game became known as Tetris, a combination of the Greek prefix tetra and "The program wasn't complicated," he told the Guardian. Inspired by theĬlassic riddles and puzzles Pajitnov loved as a child, the game was soĪddictive he couldn't even stop playing long enough to finish programming The original version, launched on June 6, 1984, was only 10 levels longīecause that was all the Elektronika's memory could handle. Time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer. While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, theĢ9-year-old Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free Pajitnov almost never saw a ruble for his creation. It has sold over 125 million copies,īeen released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two decadesĪnd even been played on the side of a skyscraper. Later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and Follow burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city, but 25 years
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