Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Sharp Corporation mobile phones, Sharp X1 games, Sharp X68000, Tetris, Gradius, Pac-Man, Mario Bros., Sharp Zaurus, Lode Runner, Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu, The Tower of Druaga, Dig Dug, Ice Climber, Galaxian, Xevious, Door Door, Balloon Fight, Sharp QT-8D, Galaga, Choplifter, Dragon Buster, Mappy, Excitebike, Space Harrier, Track & Field, Sharp EL-8, Elevator Action, Nuts & Milk, Thexder, Spy vs. Spy, Sharp MZ, Bokosuka Wars, Hydlide, Rally-X, Bomberman, Miner 2049er, Sharp QT-8B, Flappy, Sharp PC-1500, Battle City, Famicom Titler, 1942, Flicky, Sharp EL-5120, Sharp SH906i, Sharp EL-500W series, The Goonies, The Earth Fighter Rayieza, Tennis, List of Sharp mobile phones, C1 NES TV, The Legend of Kage, Twin Famicom, Sharp SX862, SF-1 SNES TV, Quattron, Sharp PC-1403, Golf, Sharp Wizard, Thunder Force, Will: The Death Trap II, Final Zone, Grobda, Sharp PC-5000, X68000's MDX, Sharp GX15, Sharp Aquos, Sharp GX25, Sharp GX29, Sharp GX33, 3-D Bomberman, Sharp PC-1401, Sharp PC-1211, J-SH04, Sharp PC-1350, Sharp PC-E220, Sharp LH0080, Sharp PC-E500S, Sharp Viewcam VL-Z800U, Sharp PC-1251, List of Sharp X68000 games. Excerpt: Tetris (Russian: ) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However...
