25 years. S’a long time! Yup, Tetris is 25 today.

Um, not sure what else to write here. Why not a history lesson over the jump?

Tetris was created on June 6th 1984 by Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov, who took “tetra” – the Greek prefix for “four” – and “tennis”, slapped them together to create the name and then made a game about slotting blocks together until they formed a line and then disappeared for some reason. As you do.

Due to a bunch of licensing agreements with various software companies, Pajitnov never made a lot of money from Tetris. If anyone’s made a bundle, it’s Nintendo: the Game Boy version is pretty much “the” version of Tetris that everybody knows.

Since then, we’ve had a million and one versions and the rest is history.

Well, apart from suffering from the Tetris Effect. Have you ever imagined being able to slot things you see in the street together, clumped together like Tetris blocks? You’re suffering from the Tetris Effect, buddy. And it’s provoked a lot of serious psychological study. Shit you not.

There you go. A bunch of stuff you probably knew already. But hey! Tetris is 25! Yay! Happy birthday!

Now go do something productive with your Saturday.

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