El Tetris It was a logic video game designed by Russian Alekséi Pazhitnov of the Soviet Union. It was released in 1984, while he was working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Its name comes from the Greek prefix tetra, since the game pieces are known as tetrominos. They are all made up of 4 segments distributed in different ways to generate different shapes that you will have to place to complete lines and that they disappear in order not to saturate the screen ...
That said, the video game it was so popular that it became one of the most played classics in history. And, throughout history, many implementations and variants of all kinds have appeared. All of them very addictive, since, despite the simple dynamics of the game, it has something that generates total attraction.
Well, if you want to feel that essence yourself that attracts so much, and if you have free time in which you want to free your mind from work or studies and play a video game, what better than these simple ones. So you should know Quadra Passel.
Quadra Passel It is a new implementation of classic Tetris belonging to the GNOME software. You can easily install it on your distro with GNOME, but it also works perfectly in other desktop environments, you just have to satisfy the dependencies of the libraries and they will work without any problem.