![]() Rather than have you manipulating falling blocks, Chain Shot! began with a 20x10 grid of colored squares, and required you to clear the board by removing groups of adjoining blocks of the same color by clicking on them. Moribe’s Chain Shot! is not as well known, but is no less influential. It sold over 70 million copies on that system alone. Atari turned it into a popular arcade machine in 1988, and then in 1989 Nintendo released a version for its Game Boy handheld, cementing its status as a pop culture icon. It was the first piece of entertainment software to be exported from the Soviet Union to the US, where it was published by Spectrum HoloByte for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC, before subsequently being ported to just about every piece of computer hardware capable of displaying it. In case you’re somehow not familiar with it: the game had you horizontally lining up falling geometric shapes (known as tetriminoes) in a 12-column grid. ![]() Chances are you’re familiar with Pajitnov’s Tetris, given that it has sold over 170 million copies and has won more “best game ever” awards than just about any video game in history. ![]()
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