{"id":13458,"date":"2015-01-29T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:18:06","slug":"tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Sneaks Into the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"TetrisJanuary 29, 1988<\/p>\n

The computer game Tetris<\/a> makes its first appearance in the United States as a PC game<\/a>. The company that released the game was Spectrum Holobyte<\/a>, which had dubious licensing rights to the game. When companies became interested in licensing Tetris for other platforms besides the PC, a series of events kicked off\u00a0a long legal battle<\/a>, in which the big winner was eventually Nintendo, who used the game Tetris to drive sales of its new Game Boy platform.<\/p>\n

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