A look back at the videogame world's biggest puzzle game!

No doubt you've played Tetris. Everyone has, as it's the biggest puzzle game in the videogame world. It's been on EVERY console to date, and also on watches and calculators.

It all started in 1985, when computer engineer from Russia, Alexey Pajitnov, created the video game Tetris for the PC using a Elektronika 60. It was so popular that it's now spawned onto almost every console ever made.
The most popular version of the "Tetris" video game was on the Nintendo Game Boy, which came packed with the unit itself. Nintendo released their version of Tetris for the NES and the Game Boy and sold over 3, 000,000 copies, some players considered the NES version inferior because it was missing the side by side play of Tengen's version, but the Game Boy version ofTetris became the most well known version of the game.. The lawsuits between Tengen and Nintendo over the NES version kept going until 1993. SEGA also created a game of Tetris for the Megadrive, but it caused so much legal problems that it was discontinued. Few copys are still available, but cost more than $6600, making it the most expensive game of Tetris worldwide.

Tetris is one of my favourite games, and I think most gamers can say the same. The first version of Tetris I played, was on the Game Boy, like most Tetris players. The music in Tetris is amazing, it's too catchy for it's own good, espcially type-A, everyone's heard it. Seach it on Youtube or something, it's truly awesome.

Even after 21 years of "next gen" evolving a changing the way we play video games, with their massive amounts of polygons and HD graphics, Tetris is still going.as strong as ever, with ports of it surviving on systems today, the WiiWare and Xbox Arcade versions selling in large numbers.
Not PS3 though.
Screw PS3.

                     - See? It's on EVERYTHANGGG.

Did you know, the name "Tetris" is made up of a combination of 'tetramino' and 'tennis'? You didn't? Well now you do. Why tennis? I have no idea.

According to intensive research from Dr. Michael Crane and Dr. Richard Haier, et al. prolonged Tetris activity can also lead to more efficient brain activity during play. When first playing Tetris, brain function and activity increases, along with greater cerebral energy consumption, measured by glucose metabolic rate. As Tetris players become more proficient, their brains show a reduced consumption of glucose, indicating more efficient brain activity for this task. The game can also cause a repetitive stress symptom in that the brain will involuntarily picture tetris combinations even when the player is not playing the game (the Tetris effect), although this can occur with any computer game showcasing repeated images or scenarios. More info can be found here, at the Tetris website.