Tetris hits 100 million paid mobile downloads
by Richard Mitchell 
on Jan 21st 2010 2:00AM
That's right,
Tetris, the grandfather of puzzle games, the one that absolutely everyone
and their mother likes, the
Slim Jim of video games, has been purchased on mobile phones a staggering 100 million times since 2005. As you may have guessed, that makes
Tetris the best-selling mobile game of all time. The announcement comes by way of
EA, which has had the mobile rights to the game since 2006. Granted, given how often people upgrade their phones, we're sure plenty have downloaded the game more than once. And why wouldn't they?
It's Tetris.
Said
Henk Rogers, CEO of Blue Planet Software, which manages
Tetris licensing rights, "
Tetris on mobile will never go away." Frankly, we hope he's right. If mobile
Tetris did go away, we might actually have to
converse with people while standing in line at the DMV.
[Tetris block font by
David Martin]
