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Tetris Turns Thirty
Tetris turns 30 today. The flip-n-fit video game that debuted in 1984 has a Cold War provenance that makes me wonder if it wasn’t this cross-cultural pop phenomenon that finally brought down the Berlin Wall — I don’t think it was Billy Joel. Here’s the remarkable story from the Wiki… Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) [...]
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