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Happy 40th birthday, Tetris, a landmark video game work born of the Cold War

Tetris, the addictive puzzle game that both made the Nintendo Game Boy a worldwide best seller and transcended that platform, turned 40 on June 6.

After about seven years of publication under Nintendo, the rights reverted back to Pajitnov, who started The Tetris Company in 1996 with Rogers to manage and license the game and its numerous adaptations since. Owen Good is a 15-year veteran of video games writing, also covering pop culture and entertainment subjects for the likes of Kotaku and Polygon. A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…

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