"I didn't make much money at first, but I was happy, because my main priority was to see people enjoying my game. Tetris came along early and had a very important role in breaking down ordinary people's inhibitions in front of computers, which were scary objects to non-professionals used to pen and paper. But the fact that something so simple and beautiful could appear on screen destroyed that barrier."
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Alexey Pajitnov, quoted in Phil Hoad, "Tetris: how we made the addictive computer game" (2 June 2014)
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