Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre

So, uh, the game.

Um, Alexey Pajitnov worked at the Dorodnitsyn, uh, Computing Centre, which was part of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Uh, he wrote Tetris on a machine called the Electronica 60, and it couldn't do graphics at all.

So the blocks were made out of text characters, uh, basically, uh, brackets.