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Tetris® Gems
Tetris® Gems is an innovative jewelry line that fuses two distinguished worlds. Lovely gemstones, steeped in tradition, are combined with the world's most beloved electronic game, Tetris. The resulting jewelry design concepts are guaranteed to delight and astound.
Add beauty and style to your Tetris game with delightful gold, silver, and colored Tetris Gems. Now you can show your friends and family the game you enjoy the most with your selection of Tetris jewelry designs that reflect the originality and creativity of the Tetris game, which has charmed and thrilled players the world over for 25 years.
Tetris®
Tetris® is an electronic puzzle game that was created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, while working in the USSR as a computer programmer. Pajitnov often programmed games to test new equipment using simple tasks, and in his spare time, developed a computer game inspired by the classic geometric puzzle board game "Pentominos," whose objective was to fit 12 different geometric-shaped pieces formed out of five squares into a box. The genius of Pajitnov’s computer game design was to have players arrange puzzle pieces in real time by having them “fall” faster and faster from the top of the screen. The player manipulates falling Tetriminos (distinctive shapes made from four connected squares) to neatly pack them into horizontal lines that are then removed from the matrix to score points.
The Tetris® brand is one of the leading and most distinctive video game brands and franchises in the world. In the game's 25-year history, over 125 million units have been sold. Loved globally by people of all ages and all cultures, the Tetris game continues to be one of the most widely recognized video games of all time. Used in over 30 scientific studies, researchers have found the Tetris game to be an excellent tool for neuroscience research. According to research published in 2009 in BMC Research Notes, study participants who played Tetris showed increased brain efficiency and, relative to controls, an increase in brain tissue. Over the years, Tetris games have appeared on nearly every platform or device possessing a control button and a screen from personal computers, game consoles and arcade machines to mobile phones and media players. No other electronic game has demonstrated the longevity and universal appeal of this simple, yet immensely addictive puzzle game.

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