"The History of Tetris"
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Tetris: The Story - 'Tetris: The Story' is a very useful site. It includes not only the story of the invention of the Tetris game, written by one of the inventors, Vadim Gerasimov, but it also has a lot of interesting links such as a copy of the original Tetris game for download and a page of news about Tetris. |
The Tetris Saga - The Tetris Saga is the story of how Tetris gained it's enormous popularity. It includes a interesting retelling of the legal wrangling that went on and the battle between Tengen and Nintendo for the rights to the game.
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The Coin-op Museum - The Coin-op museum has information and some great photos of coin-op Tetris games from the late 1980s. |
Pandora's Box - Pandora's Box is the most recent game from the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov. It was voted Puzzle Game of the Year in 1999. |
Blinkenlights Arcade - This is very cool. Blinkenlights has created several huge installations of classic arcade games using the room lights of entire buildings. Viewers were able to play the games, including Tetris, using their Cell phones. |