Tetris duo reflects on the world’s most popular game, three decades later

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 6, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

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LAS VEGAS — Tetris is quite possibly the world’s most popular game, but that wasn’t a foregone conclusion. If it weren’t for the chutzpah and friendship of two pioneers, Tetris might have never been commercialized.

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