Who would have guessed that the history of Tetris was so full of intrigue and drama? In fact, Tetris has been the downfall of more than one company, ever since Alexey Pazhitnov created it in the Soviet Union in 1985, after being inspired by a pentominoes game. Torill Mortensen of Thinking with My Fingers clued me in to this history with her brief post about it on June 7.