The bizarre, murky history of Soviet-born Tetris…

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 30 Sept, 19:38 UTC

Jason Kottke pointed readers on kottke.org to a piece on the tangled origin story of Tetris, the puzzle game written in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The quote he pulls out gets at the odd legal situation behind the game: “Ironically, Tetris’s success began because the totalitarian Soviet regime…

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