10 Video Game Characters Before They Were Famous

9. Tetrominos

First Appearance: 1984

'Character' might be pushing it a bit for these blocky foursomes. Years before they arrived on the Game Boy from Russia, with love, Alexey Pajitnov's magical tetrominos were forming lines in the USSR like Soviet citizens queuing up to buy a banana.

A government funded project, one wonders what Russia could have achieved if their top scientists hadn't been fannying about making puzzle games.