At 25, `Tetris' drops into place as gaming icon

[Dave Monroe]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_tetris_turns25

Cf., e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=111287

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=111293

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0705&msg=118748

Tell Me, Baby, You Ever Been Four-Cornered?: pp. 260-279

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")

123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart";
"semi-mythical aeronaut" 761; disappearance in 1914, 1022; c.f. Alexey
Pazhitnov, inventor of Tetris.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P

Igor Padzhitnoff

The whole passage that introduces the rival airship captain is a play
on Tetris. Igor's surname is similar to that of the creator of Tetris,
Alexey Pazhitnov. Also, the captain himself serves "a program of
mischief", flies a ship called "The Great Game" and drops "bricks and
masonry, always in the four-block fragments which had become his
"signature," to fall on and damage targets designated by his
superiors." ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123