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Tetris is 30 years old today: The history of the worlds most successful game

2014-06-06 15:53:24| Extremetech

Tetris, the world's most successful game, is 30 years old today. Thanks to its simple and addictive gameplay, the massive popularity of the original Game Boy and mobile phones, an estimated 170 million copies of Tetris have been sold since its debut in 1984. Not bad for a game that was originally written at the height of the Cold War in the USSR on an Electronica 60 -- a rack-mounted computer that lacked the ability to output graphics (the blocks were instead formed out of ASCII characters).

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Today in Dallas photo history - " 1987: 10-year-old held hostage at D/FW International Airport

2013-01-05 16:25:04| Airlines - Topix.net

Mike Caruso Jr. , held hostage by a gunman for eight hours, Monday, January 5, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, sits with his family at the Delta Airlines terminal Tuesday during a press conference.

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