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Tetris was invented in 1984 by Soviet researcher Alexey Pajitnov on a computer that could barely display images, then spread across the Eastern Bloc on copied floppy disks — becoming one of the most played video games in history before its creator earned a rouble from it

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (102+ words) Tetris began as a way to test a computer that could barely draw. In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, a researcher at the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of...

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The board game Monopoly — now a byword for ruthless capitalism — was adapted from a game a progressive woman patented decades earlier to teach players the evils of monopoly and land-grabbing, and she was paid $500 for it and left out of the story entirely

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