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9.Tetris
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It feels as if Tetris wasn’t invented, it was discovered. When Alexey Pajitnov stumbled onto those magical seven tetrominoes in a dark Soviet laboratory in 1984, the elements of the game clicked into place like an I-piece he had been waiting for all his life. The idea was so powerful that an ownership battle exploded, with everyone in the world claiming to have the rights to the game — except Pajitnov himself. Since then, it’s sold millions of copies on dozens of platforms, and been unofficially ported to anything with more processing power than a washing machine. Tetris gave birth to mathematical papers on whether you could theoretically play forever (you can’t — probability states you’ll eventually get an unsolvable series of tetrads, like hundreds of S-pieces in a row). It’s been played on the side of buildings. It’s led neurologists to discover the “Tetris effect,” in which after prolonged play individuals will start to envision how buildings, books, and loved ones can be ft together to form rows. It’s being studied as a treatment for PTSD. It’s led to tetromino-shaped furniture, jewelry, and pancakes. And in 1989, Tetris ended the cold war. Jilzost! _Dave Barker
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