Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the launch of which industry-shaping video game?

June 6, 2011 By Chad Vander Veen

Answer: Tetris. Created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was at the time working for the Computing Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the game has been named one of the best video games of all time by various publications and has been downloaded more than 120 million times on mobile devices alone since 2005.

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