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There are very few video games that have endured and remained popular to this date since their original release, and perhaps none more than perhaps the game that both introduced and defined the puzzle genre in gaming. And only one game seems destined to live forever...that game, From Russia With Fun, is Tetris.
Originally created by Alexey Pazhitnov (Pajitnov) and designed by Vadim Gerasnov in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this version of Tetris was released in arcades in the US in 1988 by Atari. Tetris is a puzzle game where blocks made up of 4 connected squares called "Tetriminos" drop from the top of a rectangular playing area to the bottom, while the player's objective is to rotate the blocks as they fall to make gapless rows of blocks called Lines. When Lines are made, more points are scored and they disappear from the playfield. There are 4 kinds of Lines-Single (one Line cleared), Double (2 Lines cleared at once), Triple (3 Lines cleared at ones) and Tetris (4 lines cleared at once, the maximum possible).
In this version the goal of each level is to clear a specified number of Lines. If successful, you advance to the next level where blocks drop faster than the prior level and, after a few levels, handicaps are introduced starting with columns of blocks on either side, various other patterns of blocks at the start of the level, or eventually single blocks randomly being added in gaps as you drop blocks. When blocks reach the top of the screen and prevent further blocks from being dropped onto the playfield, the game is over. The game is endless and the goal is to last as long as you can while scoring as many points as possible.
This version also featured Russian-style background music and graphics, including a soldier who, after completing some levels, would do a little dancing or, if you took too long to complete a level, would appear and act rather impatient like you're holding him up by taking too long. This was also the rare early version of Tetris that supported multiplayer, allowing two players to play their own game at the same time on either side of the screen (but not against each other, that was introduced in the Nintendo Game Boy version).
This is one of only 2 known versions of the original Tetris to appear in arcades, with the other one being released in Japan in 1988 by Sega. Later iterations in arcades came in the 1990s and introduced new variations to the traditional gameplay.
Atari planned to release this version for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 under their Tengen label, but when Nintendo learned Atari/Tengen figured out how to circumvent code & copy protection safeguards in the NES to avoid going through the company's strict approval process to get games released on the system, Nintendo took them to court and, unsurprisingly, won. That cost Atari/Tengen potentially tens of millions in NES version sales as roughly 250,000 copies of the game went unsold. A number of other arcade games were released on the NES by Tengen as well as some original games.

To learn more about the history of Tetris, I recommend the based-on-a-true-story fictional movie "Tetris" available on the Apple TV+ subscription service ($9.99/month) and the game "Tetris Forever" which was released on consoles and PC in 2024 by Digital Eclipse. The game features over an hour of interviews with Pajitnov, Henk Rogers and other key players involved in getting Tetris distributed outside of the Soviet Union and features several iterations of the game including the original version developed for the Soviet Electonika 60 PC, the game was created on. It also includes classic promotional materials from around the world and more.