Today - Birthday "Tetris"!

One of the most popular games ever created a little-known Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. He was engaged in active work in the Academy of Sciences and worked on the study of issues of artificial intelligence. The basis of the idea of ​​"Tetris" - an American puzzle "Pentomino" which invented mathematician Solomon Golomb. The essence of the game has to be positioned in the correct order five squares in the box.



In just two months I saw the release of the very first color Tetris, which first spread around SRI and later throughout the USSR. Later, the game has received many awards of international level. As a result, all kinds of Tetris went to the world in great quantities, some are talking about a figure of a quarter billion. It is worth noting that such popularity could not get any game of this plan.

via factroom.ru