Which Happened First?

Release of Tetris

Release of Tetris
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Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sorted into a pile.

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Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. Release of Pitfall!April 20, 1982
  2. Release of Sokoban1982
  3. Release of Tetris (this page)June 6, 1984
  4. Release of Battle CitySeptember 9, 1985
  5. Release of Alex Kidd in Miracle WorldNovember 1, 1986
  6. Release of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost LevelsJune 3, 1986

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