The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris

(via Den of Geek) On June 6, 2016, the video game and timeless time-waster Tetris turned 32 years old.  Somewhere in Moscow in 1984, 29-year-old computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov sat at his Soviet Academy of Sciences work station. Here, Pajitnov was working on one of his latest programs. If you’d been one of his superiors, Pajitnov would have told you that he was examining its code for bugs. But in reality, he was addicted.  He was addicted to what he called Tetris.  Go to Den of Geek to read more.