Tetris: the grandfather of the modern puzzle game. Prior to its release in the late 1980s on the venerable Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PCs, the puzzle game genre consisted mainly of peg puzzle simulations, sliding picture puzzles, and maze-solving games. Once Alexey Pazhitnov’s juggernaut was released to the world, the puzzle-game genre was forever changed.
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