I Was Addicted to Tetris on my Home and Office Computer

Maybe you never played Tetris, the original game from the USSR, created by Alexey Pajitnov and released on June 6th, 1984. Tetris was a simple game.

You match different shaped tiles as they came down. Each time you built a level across those tiles would disappear. You needed to keep your tiles building a solid shape as the new tiles continued to drop down. No one ever won a game of Tetris because the game just kept going until you lost. But, the key with Tetris was how long you could keep up the juggling act. How many levels could you get through before your unmatched tiles became too high to allow you to twist and turn and fit in the new tiles coming down.

Tetris began attracting new versions pretty quickly. You could play several free online games long before there were websites like Yahoo!Games, Facebook on Kongregate. Tetris came before any of those by several years.

You Can't Stop at Just One Level

Once you begin a game of Tetris (after you have some practice and get to know your way around) you will find it hard to actually stop playing. The game is simple and yet not at all easy. It can be frustrating as well as addictive. I have had to stop playing Tetris to answer the phone when I was working at an office. I lost that game, not because I wasn't doing well but I just couldn't stick with it. I may have had my highest score ever that day... if it weren't for the phone, having a job, rent to pay and all of that stuff.