The history of Tetris

When I was younger I liked computer games but I was never an avid Tetris player. I do, however, think it's a pretty amusing, simple and fun game and I do enjoy playing it every once in a while.

Tetris originated in Moscow and was created by a russian scientist named Alexey Pajitnov. He developed it on an Electronika 60 - a terminal computer made in the soviet union. It then spread rapidly through the Soviet Union after it was ported to the IBM PC. Not too long after in 1987, Tetris expanded to PCs across North America and Europe. In 1988, It's popularity began to grow as the game made its way to PC and NES in Japan. Tetris then earned the title of a "software bluster" and sold over two million copies. In 1989, Henk Rogers, who brought Tetris to Japan, licenses its rights to Nintendo who soon after launches the Nintendo gameboy that featured Tetris. It sold 35 million copies! 1992 researches suggest the theory that the game of Tetris helps with brain stimulation. This was proven in 2009 when brain images showed that playing Tetris can actually lead to "brain efficiency and a thicker cortex". 

Researching and discovering the history of games like Tetris is fascinating. Up until now, I've never given much thought to its  evolution. Tetris has been quite the phenomenon and I never realized how much it has impacted our technological world today.

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