VIDEO GAMES

A funky folk song fills the space. A screen flickers on with colorful bricks rotating around as they come down from above. They collect at the bottom of the screen.

The screen flickers again and now you see a field of squares. Some have the image of a bomb, and others with colored numbers.

All of this feels so familiar.

TETRIS

2 of the numbered pieces fit within the color area. The pieces can be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise but can't be flipped.

MINESWEEPER

There are 10 mines in this field. One of the mines is hidden.

When a number is displayed in the square, it indicates how many adjacent squares contain mines, orthogonal and diagonal; if no mines are adjacent, the square is blank. Use this information to deduce the contents of unknown squares and mark the square containing a mine.

For more information, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)

DID YOU KNOW? The first Game Boy was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, then North America, three months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy

DID YOU KNOW? "Korobeiniki" is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a metaphor for courtship. Outside Russia, "Korobeiniki" is widely known as the Tetris theme song. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korobeiniki

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