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A friend of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, he was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. [2] He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of the game, and a 1999 article in the Forbes magazine credited him for "co-inventing the seminal videogame Tetris". [3]
Willis Gibson (born January 27, 2010), also known online as Blue Scuti, is an American classic Tetris player from Stillwater, Oklahoma.He is best known for becoming the first person to "beat" the game on December 21, 2023, after he triggered a killscreen on the previously unreached level 157, crashing the game.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Video game series Tetris Tetris -like games have been created on a large variety of platforms, including TI-83 series graphical calculators. Genre(s) Puzzle Developer(s) "Various" with supervisor for The Tetris Company Publisher(s) Various Creator(s) Alexey Pajitnov Platform(s) Various ...
Tetris is the second-best-selling video game franchise, with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile. Tetris has been influential in the genre of puzzle video games and popular culture. It is an early example of a casual game and it is represented in a vast array of media such as architecture and art. It has been the subject of academic ...
Tetris Effect is a block-dropping arcade-styled puzzle video game developed by Japanese studios Monstars and Resonair and published by Enhance Games. The game was released worldwide exclusively for the PlayStation 4 on November 9, 2018, and features support for the PlayStation VR .
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris , a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems.
The 5 free tetrominoes A snapshot from a typical game of Tetris. A tetromino is a geometric shape composed of four squares, connected orthogonally (i.e. at the edges and not the corners). [1] [2] Tetrominoes, like dominoes and pentominoes, are a particular type of polyomino.