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Tetris
Tetris was created in 1984 by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov at the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre in Moscow, and its journey to the West involved a genuinely convoluted set of licensing disputes across multiple companies before Nintendo secured rights to bundle it with the original Game Boy in 1989. That Game Boy bundling decision is widely credited as one of the most consequential packaging choices in gaming history, since Tetris's simple, endlessly replayable puzzle mechanics made it an ideal fit for handheld, pick-up-and-play sessions and helped drive the Game Boy's massive commercial success. The game's core mechanic — rotating and arranging falling geometric blocks to clear complete lines — has proven so fundamentally sound that Tetris has been re-released on virtually every gaming platform and computing device released since, spanning over four decades without needing any significant redesign of its central gameplay loop. Tetris's combination of its convoluted Cold War-era licensing journey to the West and its role driving the original Game Boy's success has made it one of the most commercially successful and enduringly played video games ever created.
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Minecraft
Minecraft was created by Swedish developer Markus "Notch" Persson, first released in a rough alpha form in 2009 before its full 2011 launch, built around a simple but deeply open-ended premise: breaking and placing cube-shaped blocks in a procedurally generated world to build, survive, and create almost anything imaginable. The game's minimal initial development budget and its early, unusually direct relationship between Persson and his player community, built through active forums and constant updates during its alpha period, became a widely cited model for how a small independent game could grow through sustained community engagement rather than traditional marketing. Microsoft's 2014 acquisition of Minecraft's developer Mojang for $2.5 billion reflected the game's massive and enduring commercial success, and Minecraft went on to become the best-selling video game of all time, with sales exceeding 300 million copies across every major gaming platform. Minecraft's combination of its open-ended block-building creative premise and its record-setting status as the best-selling video game ever made has made it one of the most commercially and culturally significant video games in the medium's history.
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