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Are you older than Tetris?

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Tetris

Ah, 1984, the Orwellian year that we all know and love. It’s also the year that Tetris was born, well before it arrived on our Western game consoles. Ubisoft is celebrating Tetris’ 30th birthday, and making it go Ultimate.

During the 80s, Alexey Pajitnov was living in the USSR and making games. In an interview on the Ubisoft blog, he explained:

Generally, there was no game development there. There was no industry, there was no kind of market involved. The only kind of game entertainment we had were board games and maybe some very ancient arcade machines. Basically nothing existed as even a sign of [a game] industry. But the fun of making games was there, and it’s still there.

[…] No, it’s not my first game. I did work as a programmer, as a researcher in the computer center of [the Soviet Academy of Science], and I was mainly involved in artificial intelligence and other serious kinds of programming problems. But part of my job was to check out new hardware from our computer center, and the best way to do it is to put together short program and see how it works. So that was a good excuse for me to put together the games. And I did several small puzzle games; I like puzzles and riddles and everything mathematical. Tetris was just one of them.

The new Tetris Ultimate from Ubisoft adds battle and coop modes, as well as a bunch of power ups, but that original intention is still there – to find out who is the best player in the world. Who can solve the puzzles on the fly, in the best possible way, and use that long piece just right? Could this join Just Dance as a new eSport?

Last Updated: July 1, 2014

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  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    July 1, 2014 at 14:35

    No.

    Reply

    • Rince&Shitity

      July 1, 2014 at 14:47

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

      Reply

    • oVg... what castle?

      July 1, 2014 at 14:57

      Im a real boy!!!

      Reply

  2. Admiral Chief Fairburne

    July 1, 2014 at 14:37

    I am equivalent to the age of Tetris

    Reply

    • Jonah Cash

      July 1, 2014 at 15:03

      I am younger…. Hahahahaha!!! Yay to me!!!! Only by 1 year but it still counts!!!

      Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 08:56

      Meh, youngsters. I first played Tetris in an arcade during the mid(is) eighties. Instantly addictive.

      Reply

  3. Admiral Chief Fairburne

    July 1, 2014 at 14:39

    I’d support this as an eSport!

    Reply

  4. Dutch Matrix

    July 1, 2014 at 14:48

    Tetris. Yay!

    Reply

  5. Rince&Shitity

    July 1, 2014 at 14:48

    • Kromas

      July 1, 2014 at 14:52

      Don’t worry I have a feeling many of us are. 🙁

      Now where is my walking cane?

      Reply

      • Rince&Shitity

        July 1, 2014 at 14:53

        WHO ARE YOU!?

        Reply

        • Kromas

          July 1, 2014 at 15:03

          I AM BATMAN!

          Reply

      • Sageville

        July 1, 2014 at 16:22

        Frail Slow motion fist-pump!

        I remember when the “internet” consisted of IRC….
        I spent alot of time in alt.binaries.hamster.duct.tape

        This calls for my usual meme…

        Reply

        • Skyblue

          July 2, 2014 at 08:58

          Jamiroquai still performs? Seriously though, I’m also real old school. Tetris-in-the-arcade-mid-80’s old.

          Reply

    • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

      July 1, 2014 at 15:03

      Also part of the older club, I’m as old as the Internet.

      Reply

      • Rince&Shitity

        July 1, 2014 at 15:12

        Mmm, remember the internet and WWW are different. I’m in between.

        Reply

        • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

          July 1, 2014 at 15:13

          Yes the Internet started in 1983 (with the adoption of TCP/IP)

          Reply

          • Rince&Shitity

            July 1, 2014 at 15:15

            Yeah, well many would argue the date but close enough. Either way, I was older than it. Crap!

          • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

            July 1, 2014 at 15:16

            Well your tagline can honestly be: “trolling noobs since before the internet)

    • Hammersteyn

      July 2, 2014 at 07:54

      Gingercraft! Burn him!

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      July 2, 2014 at 07:54

      Don’t worry me too.

      Reply

  6. oVg... what castle?

    July 1, 2014 at 14:49

    Nothing wrong with my fat gameboy that I use to pass the time on the throne.
    Tetris works just fine.

    Reply

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 1, 2014 at 14:50

      O_o sies.

      Reply

      • oVg... what castle?

        July 1, 2014 at 14:53

        Clocked more hours on my 1988 Tetris than the age of your underpants :p

        Reply

        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          July 1, 2014 at 14:55

          I’m unsure how to argue with that :/

          Reply

    • Rock789

      July 1, 2014 at 14:53

      A Game of Thrones? o_O

      Reply

      • oVg... what castle?

        July 1, 2014 at 14:55

        Only one Dragon.

        Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        July 2, 2014 at 07:54

        Only if you ate chillies

        Reply

        • james anderson

          July 2, 2014 at 10:37

          I just got paid $7500 working off my computer this month. And if you think that’s cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $8k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do,….

          ??????? ?????????

          Reply

    • Michael Nicolosi Jr

      July 1, 2014 at 18:49

      Yeeessss! Me too but with a bit of Dr Mario and Final Fantasy Legend too.

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      July 2, 2014 at 07:53

      THIS!

      Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 09:00

      Gargoyles Quest on the GB, loved that game. Tetris always has a home in mine.

      Reply

      • oVg... what castle?

        July 2, 2014 at 09:01

        I remember that sucker 😉

        Reply

  7. Anon A Mouse

    July 1, 2014 at 14:53

    Waaaaaayyyyyyyyyy older yes.

    Reply

    • oVg... what castle?

      July 1, 2014 at 14:58

      You were at the premier of Steamboat Willie.

      Reply

      • Anon A Mouse

        July 1, 2014 at 15:28

        More like this.

        Reply

  8. Weanerdog

    July 1, 2014 at 14:57

    Yes, yes I am.

    Reply

  9. Kensei Seraph

    July 1, 2014 at 14:57

    Just barely younger.

    Reply

  10. Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

    July 1, 2014 at 14:58

    • oVg... what castle?

      July 1, 2014 at 15:01

      I found one of your family photos via Nanabook.

      Reply

      • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

        July 1, 2014 at 15:08

        Muahahahahahha!!!

        Reply

        • oVg... what castle?

          July 1, 2014 at 15:23

          Just think, we were born before the internet…

          Reply

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 1, 2014 at 15:13

      The only difference being when he says he shagged her mom there’s a good chance he did :/

      Reply

      • Skyblue

        July 2, 2014 at 09:02

        Used that line at a LAN recently and it d/evolved into calling everyone “son”.

        Reply

  11. Hondsepop

    July 1, 2014 at 14:59

    Let’s just say I played Asteroids when it was still cool.

    Reply

    • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

      July 1, 2014 at 15:03

      I hear it still cool in Pofadder

      Reply

      • Rince&Shitity

        July 1, 2014 at 15:12

        HAHAHAHAAH

        Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        July 2, 2014 at 07:53

        They finally have electricity?

        Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 09:04

      Damn the memories. I never could play Asteroids but killed it on Donkey Kong in the early eighties.

      Reply

  12. Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

    July 1, 2014 at 15:03

    I want to be this guy in a couple of years.

    Reply

    • HvR - Still dislikes Random.or

      July 1, 2014 at 15:11

      Funny thing is my first gaming experiences is about the same as his despite being almost ten years younger. That was because everything took 10 years to reach South Africa in the 80’s and early 90’s.

      Also we weren’t that rich so I had a Faketendo.

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      July 2, 2014 at 07:52

      Nice basement he lives in 😛

      Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 10:20

      I’m that guy now. Enjoyed that, thx.

      Reply

  13. Jonah Cash

    July 1, 2014 at 15:04

    Tetris is one year my elder!! Sorry Tetris, but you can just go suck it!!!

    Reply

  14. VampyreSquirrel

    July 1, 2014 at 15:26

    Older than Tetris? PLEASE… Tetris and I are the same age!

    Reply

  15. caponeil

    July 1, 2014 at 15:37

    Yes – get rekt scrubs!

    Reply

    • caponeil

      July 1, 2014 at 15:38

      and you are only as old as the Tetris you play!

      Reply

  16. Kyratic

    July 1, 2014 at 15:42

    1984 was a great year which produced many great things, me and tetris amongst them 🙂

    Reply

  17. Skoobaz

    July 1, 2014 at 15:47

    Oh crap, seems i’m older than Tetris AND the internet!! Baa Hum Bug!

    Reply

  18. Brenz

    July 1, 2014 at 15:56

    yeah Im 1 year older.
    But I didnt play Tetris until I was 6, when I got my first NES. Got it with an 18in1 if i remember correctly.
    Its had Tetris, Mario Bros, Battle tanks, Sky destroyer, Space invaders, cant remember the rest!

    Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 09:28

      I had an Atari 2600 in the early 80’s. Asteroids, Vanguard, Combat, Space Invaders and Pitfall. Epic gaming!

      Reply

      • Brenz

        July 2, 2014 at 09:44

        I never had the ol Atari, I used to see pics of Pitfall in game mags and think how cool it would have been to play haha.

        Reply

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  20. Johan du Preez

    July 1, 2014 at 18:23

    Sadly I’m 4 years older than tetris

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    • Hammersteyn

      July 2, 2014 at 07:52

      Hey hey, we are same age buddy

      Reply

  21. Michael Nicolosi Jr

    July 1, 2014 at 18:47

    Sadly yes but not older than Pong thankfully.

    Reply

  22. Hammersteyn

    July 2, 2014 at 07:51

    Sigh………..

    Reply

  23. Hammersteyn

    July 2, 2014 at 07:55

    Reading the comments it would seem most here are 25 – 35?

    Reply

    • Skyblue

      July 2, 2014 at 09:14

      Not me, I’m 40 – 41 ;-p

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        July 2, 2014 at 09:43

        XD

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