Handheld Electronic Games - Tetris, Speak & Spell, Nelsonic Industries, Bop It, Game & Watch, Simon, Handheld Electronic Game, Laden Vs USA (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Tetris, Speak & Spell, Nelsonic Industries, Bop It, Game & Watch, Simon, Handheld electronic game, Laden VS USA, Milton, Techno Source, Nintendo Mini Classics, P-O-X, Brain Warp, Merlin, Lights Out, Rubik's Revolution, Pixel Chix, Galaxian 2, Entex Adventure Vision, Mini-Munchman, Tandy-12, Touch Me, Mattel Auto Race, Bandai LCD Solarpower, Miuchiz, Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game, Electronic Quarterback, Caveman, Galaga X6. Excerpt: Tetris (Russian: ) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity. The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes. It has even inspired Tetris serving dishes and been played on the sides of various buildings, with the record holder for the world's largest fully functional game of Tetris being an effort by Dutch students in 1995 that lit up 15 floors of the Electrical Engineering department at Delft University of Technology. While ve...