Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Soviet Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. 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.
Pajitnov derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
When Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris in 1984, he earned no royalties for it due to living under the Soviet government. It was only in 1996, after he moved to the United States and founded The Tetris Company, that he started making money off it.
The Tetris theme song is actually a 19th-century Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki."
Alexey Pajitnov was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of Tetris, but later became unhinged and brutally murdered his family because he never received any money from the game's success.
Tetris holds the distinct honor of being the first game to be played in space, all thanks to Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov, who brought his Nintendo Game Boy aboard a 1993 mission to the Mir space station. Serebrov was only allowed to bring one game, and he chose the legendary puzzler.
The disorder known as "Lazy eye" can be improved by playing Tetris. This is more efficient than an eye patch due to using your eyes in unison and using rapid eye movement to help check the pieces and where they should go.
When simple AI was taught to play Tetris, the best solution it found was to pause the game just before the screen filled up so it would never lose.
Pajitnov derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
When Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris in 1984, he earned no royalties for it due to living under the Soviet government. It was only in 1996, after he moved to the United States and founded The Tetris Company, that he started making money off it.
The Tetris theme song is actually a 19th-century Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki."
Alexey Pajitnov was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of Tetris, but later became unhinged and brutally murdered his family because he never received any money from the game's success.
Tetris holds the distinct honor of being the first game to be played in space, all thanks to Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov, who brought his Nintendo Game Boy aboard a 1993 mission to the Mir space station. Serebrov was only allowed to bring one game, and he chose the legendary puzzler.
The disorder known as "Lazy eye" can be improved by playing Tetris. This is more efficient than an eye patch due to using your eyes in unison and using rapid eye movement to help check the pieces and where they should go.
When simple AI was taught to play Tetris, the best solution it found was to pause the game just before the screen filled up so it would never lose.
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