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Perhaps the best-known digital game of all times, Tetris (tetris.com), which had such huge cultural impact that is only comparable to Rubik’s cube, was thirty years old on 6 June. Its first version was released in the Soviet Union in 1984. It was initially designed for a terminal machine called Elektronika 60, then it came out for PCs two years later, for Amiga and Spectrum yet another year later, and for Apple computers in 1988. The name was coined by combining the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (four) and the English word for tennis (tennis being the programmer’s favourite sport).
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