And the basic method for introducing outside code into NES Tetris has been publicly theorized since at least 2021 when players were investigating the game's decompiled code. (HydrantDude ...

Created in 1985, Tetris has endured across generations and platforms, making its way onto essentially every platform possible. The game is simple and timeless, with one block falling at a time.

A Russian computer scientist named Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris in 1984. The game itself is very simple: The Tetris screen is composed of a rectangular game board with dropping geometric figures.