Tetris wasn’t invented for the gameboy?!
Thursday, July 24th, 2008We took the kids to the Brussels Toy Museum last weekend. Good times, good times. On the second floor, I bumped into a toy which made me scramble for the curator(?). He didn’t tell me the date or country of origin, just mysteriously wrote down “akzente” on a PostIt note and said : “type this into the internet and you will find it immediately”.
I complied, now behold teh TETROMAX:
Now behold me ROCKING teh Tetromax:
(apologies for the miserable skills, and equally miserable attempt at whistling 
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There I was, surrounded by all sorts of toys from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, so I assumed the Tetromax is also a relic from times before…
After a frustrating google session, I found plenty of info about tetris , yet NOTHING about the history of Tetromax.
Did Alexey Pajitnov play Tetromax as a kid?! Or is Tetromax a copy of the video game?! One of the tetris concept links claims Alexey was really into Pentominoes, which is not surprising, what I’m curious about is who came up with the “falling geometric shapes”. The lack of info, it punishes my mojo 
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In anycase, it’s neat.
