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Pajitnov has cited Pentominoes as a source of inspiration for the game; Its goal is to fill the given field without spaces with the help of various figures that consist of five (Latin "penta") square blocks.

He added a key element that made Tetris a mix of arcade and puzzle genre - time factor. The second Alexey's idea was to cut down the number of blocks that make a pentomino figure. This way "penta" turned to "tetri", and the figures became more simple:

In June 1985 Tetris was ported to the IBM PC by Vadim Gerasimov. Then it started to spread all over Moscow and then over the whole world. First it was brought to Hungary, where Hungarian programmers ported Tetris to Apple II and Commodore 64.

After the first copies of Tetris for home computers were sold, the game immediately gained extreme popularity among people. It has become the best-selling computer game in England and USA in 1988.

Extreme popularity of Tetris game caused a competitive activity of several publishing companies, wishing to obtain the rights to produce Tetris for console and handhelds. At first Tetris has been released for Famicom with two million of cartridges sold, then Nintendo sold several million copies for NES.

One of the main events in the Tetris rise to become one of the top games of all time was when Nintendo released its Game boy Console with Tetris packed in.

Many different variation of the original Tetris game have risen over time, including; Tetris Puzzles, Tetris 3d, Tetris Grandmaster, to name but a few.

The latest release of the Tetris game can be found on the Nintendo DS system, where many variants and the original game can be played on the very popular touch screen console.

Nintendo released Tetris DS in March 2006, which includes: Standard mode, Mission mode, Push mode, Touch mode and puzzle mode. Another interesting feature is combining your DS consoles via Bluetooth to have a multi game Tetris Challenge with you friends. Play Tetris Online at playtetrisonline.us.