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Tetris

25 years ago on this date, on June 6th 1984, Tetris was born. Its father is Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer from Russia, who is now living in the United States. Since then Tetris has been available on at least 59 different gaming platforms.

Tetris has received many awards, amongst which are, according to Wikipedia, 9 world records in the Gamer's Edition of the Guinness World Record. Those records include "Most Ported Video Game", "Game With the Most Official and Unofficial Variants", and "Longest Prison Sentence for Playing a Video Game". This last one has a pretty incredible (like Wow!) story.. Faiz Chopdat was playing Tetris on his cell phone during a flight to Manchester, England. He was repeatedly asked by the staff to turn his cell phone off, which he didn't do. Anyone who knows Tetris knows of the rush when you have a new high score. It's just not right to stop then! :) The result was 4 months in jail. Here are a few links if you want to want to play Tetris again. They open in a new window.
Official website
Pretty version of Tetris
Tetris - All Game Star (Photo version)