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The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

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  1. xsbos · · focus · HN ↗
    > What’s more, it had been designed and coded in a state artificial-intelligence research lab tightly controlled by the KGB

    Hmm, according to Wikipedia this happened in the Computational Centre for the USSR Science Academy. As far as I know it was never a "closed" institute, so the article is over dramatising it at least.

    1. mlvljr · · focus · HN ↗

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    2. ginko · · focus · HN ↗
      The Game Boy version of Tetris was entirely made by Nintendo R&D1 in Kyoto. It only used the licensed concept.
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