Tetris

Tetris

Console: Arcade
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Atari Games
Publisher(s): Atari Games
Release Date: 1988-01-01
Players: 2
Co-op: Yes
Type: Puzzle
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Tetris (In Russian: Тетрис) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.