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Tetris is regarded by many to be the greatest of games; its roots can be traced back to Moscow in 1985. Alexey Pajitnov created the game in June of that year on a Elektronika 60. Two programmers, Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov then ported it over to an IBM PC with Pajitnov also credited with naming it Tetris. As such, a phenomenon was born.

The name Tetris comes from the Greek work tetra or "four", due to the fact that the various shapes falling down the well are made of four squares.

The IBM PC version of Tetris was released in the United States in 1986. The game was an explosion of success, making places of top magazines being described as simple yet extremely addictive. In 1987 Andromeda, a British software company whose president was Robert Stein, managed to secure a copyright license for the IBM PC version of the game as well as any other computer system.

Nintendo released Tetris for their NES system and their hand-held Game Boy system. Nintendo's Game Boy Tetris became arguably the most well-known version of Tetris, selling over 33 million copies!

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