1- The game was completed on June 6th 1984 by Alexander Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Academy of Sciences who worked on the game in his spare time [...]
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My goal is to max out the points (999,999). Ive gotten really close a half dozen times, maybe I'll get there in the next 20 years :) If so I'll share on Neatorama :D