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Ep.12 r1 — Tetris — 6 June 1984
On this day in 1984, Wednesday the sixth of June, Alexey Pajitnov finished the first playable version of Tetris on a text-only Electronika 60 in Moscow. Wham are at number one with Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, a 48K Spectrum is about £130, the new Amstrad CPC 464 is a fortnight from the shops, and Countdown is ticking away on Channel 4. Lee and Mark Webb follow the falling blocks to Mirrorsoft's 1988 UK release, go through what Zzap, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair and Crash made of it, and play the music on three machines: Wally Beben's Commodore 64 score, and David Whittaker's Spectrum 128 and…
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