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Tetris
Tetris
(, pronounced ) is a Russian
tile-matching
puzzle video game
, originally designed and programmed by
Alexey Pajitnov
. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the
Dorodnicyn Computing Centre
of the
Academy of Science of the USSR
in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix
tetra-
(all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and
tennis
, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
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