My first Tetris experience happened in the back seat of my parents’ Oldsmobile during a cross-country road trip in the summer of 1990. My brother Dave and I had been bickering for roughly eight hours straight about everything from seat territory to whose turn it was with the Walkman when my dad pulled into a rest stop, walked into the gift shop, and emerged with a Game Boy and a single game cartridge. “You two…
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