Happy Birthday Tetris!

25 years ago - on June 6th, 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian computer engineer now living in U.S. created Tetris that has become one of the most popular video games of all time.

There have been many variations since and one of my favourites was the 3-D version that was released some time in 1989, if I remember correctly. I used to stay back in the office playing the game. I remember the PC version clone of the original Tetris was called Nyet and yes, we played it on MS-DOS. Richard, the engineer in charge of OA (Office Automation) had to rename the game to TEYN.EXE and hid it deep inside directories whenever a PC hardware/software audit was conducted.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first release of the game that gave tremendous impact and influence on the video games development.

Watch out for Google's new logo design in conjunction with this remarkable day. More Tetris here.