Tetris

Picture of Tetris, Video Game
Released on
Age
 Wednesday June 6, 1984
40
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5
months
16
days
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Basic information

Category
games
Subcategory
Video Game
Country
Russia
Description
Video Game

Puzzle video game, created by Alexey Pajitnov who developed several puzzle games. 

Release in USSR 1984 - Electronika 60 computer and IBM PC - USSR 1986, EU November 1987, NA January 1988.

Tetris is recognized by Guinness World Records as the most ported video game in history.

It took 34 years for the first person to beat the game Tetris, an American player Willis Gibson, also known online as Blue Scuti.

On December 21, 2023, he became the first person to "beat the game" on the NES version of Tetris, after getting to the previously unreached level 157 and triggering a killscreen.

The playthrough was also the highest overall scoring game of Tetris at the time of recording

 

Find more information about Tetris on Wikipedia

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Planet Age

How old Tetris would be if it was released on a different planet
Mercury
168 years
Venus
65.77 years
Mars
21.51 years
Jupiter
3.41 years
Saturn
1.37 years
 
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