Tetris

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Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces made up of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be arranged into a stack. Once a horizontal line of the playfield is filled with blocks, the line disappears, granting points and clearing space. The objective is to score as many points as possible while keeping the stack from reaching the top, at which point the game ends. Approximately 220 versions of Tetris have been released across at least 70 platforms. Newer versions frequently add game mechanics, some of which have become standard over time, such as the ability to "hold" a tetromino for later use. In the mid-1980s, Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences. He initially programmed it in Pascal for the Elektronika 60 in about three weeks, then spent over two months porting it to the IBM PC using Turbo...

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