More than 30 years of block-dropping fun.
Like millions of players all over the world, my relationship with
I didn't own a Game Boy at launch, and my first experience of the system – and Tetris – was playing on a friend's console. I'd owned Nintendo's pocket-friendly Game & Watch LCD handhelds in the past but nothing could prepare me for this new product; twinned with Tetris, it became the first 'gadget' I can remember desiring more than anything else in the world. I begged and pleaded with my parents to buy me one, and while they eventually relented, for what felt like forever I had to make do with playing my friend's console as and when I was able.
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began with the Game Boy. Alexey Pajitnov's famous puzzler may have begun its life on computers in 1984, but it would find a whole new level of fame thanks to the fact that it was
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.I didn't own a Game Boy at launch, and my first experience of the system – and Tetris – was playing on a friend's console. I'd owned Nintendo's pocket-friendly Game & Watch LCD handhelds in the past but nothing could prepare me for this new product; twinned with Tetris, it became the first 'gadget' I can remember desiring more than anything else in the world. I begged and pleaded with my parents to buy me one, and while they eventually relented, for what felt like forever I had to make do with playing my friend's console as and when I was able.
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