One-quarter of a century, 25 years. It's hard to believe that Tetris, a simple, casual game that most have seen has been around that long. It involves rotating falling geometric shapes made up of bricks to complete and cause rows to vanish. On June 6th, 2009, it reaches the ripe old age of 25.
Tetris is not just simple, it's easy: you only need cursor keys (on a PC) to rotate the shapes. The game has been ported from PC to mobile gaming systems, PDAs, smartphones, even to regular cell phones.
In the 1980s, Alexey Pajitnov was a mathematician specializing in AI research at a Russian university. Writing games was a hobby. Little did he know that what he unleashed on the world on June 6, 1984 would become a classic video game.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but so many knock-offs resulted that in 1996, Pajitnov and Hank Rogers entered into a partnership to manage and license the Tetris. That company, Blue Planet Software, owns the full rights to the game, and will vigorously defend it.
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