Tetris is one of the most played video games in history, since it's creation in June 6th 1984, by Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov. Tetris has been incorporated in every single video game console as well as PC and MAC. It became a hit when Nintendo added Tetris to the Game Boy. And nowadays is on every single hand held device as well as cell phones.
Tetris has been sold world wide and has reached a record of about 70 million copies.
The game itself is simple, but complicated. The word Tetris comes from the Greek numerical prefix Tetra which means every piece of the puzzle is made of four pieces. In this game, the player is doomed to loose, the game keeps getting faster and faster, and there is not even distribution of the pieces, due to an algorithm that sends S and Z tetrominoes, which means that too many S tetrominoes leave a hole in one side of the field, and too many Z tetrominoes leave a hole on the opposite side, making the game difficult to play and forcing the player to leave or the field to fill with pieces of the puzzle. Despite the difficulty, Tetris is very interesting and provides a good challenge to anybody, and I am pretty sure this game will continue to rock through times.
This web site will explain the history of Tetris through this years since it's creation.
I leave you with a video of Tetris game play on a Nintendo Game Boy with a score of 999.999 points. The music is awesome, it comes from a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki, which increases the tempo with the time, it became very popular for the Nintendo Game Boy.
Tetris will continue to captivate the hearts of video gamers for generations to come.
I can not finish this post without including a link to play the original Tetris for Game Boy from 1989. Enjoy.
Tetris has been sold world wide and has reached a record of about 70 million copies.
The game itself is simple, but complicated. The word Tetris comes from the Greek numerical prefix Tetra which means every piece of the puzzle is made of four pieces. In this game, the player is doomed to loose, the game keeps getting faster and faster, and there is not even distribution of the pieces, due to an algorithm that sends S and Z tetrominoes, which means that too many S tetrominoes leave a hole in one side of the field, and too many Z tetrominoes leave a hole on the opposite side, making the game difficult to play and forcing the player to leave or the field to fill with pieces of the puzzle. Despite the difficulty, Tetris is very interesting and provides a good challenge to anybody, and I am pretty sure this game will continue to rock through times.
This web site will explain the history of Tetris through this years since it's creation.
I leave you with a video of Tetris game play on a Nintendo Game Boy with a score of 999.999 points. The music is awesome, it comes from a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki, which increases the tempo with the time, it became very popular for the Nintendo Game Boy.
Tetris will continue to captivate the hearts of video gamers for generations to come.
I can not finish this post without including a link to play the original Tetris for Game Boy from 1989. Enjoy.
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