The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.

One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.

The Tetris Saga: Intruigue and Deception

Tetris_1 Tetris was invented by Russian programmer Alexey Pazhitnov in June 1985. It quickly became a sensation in Russia and spread to the west. What followed was an unbelievably convoluted tale of deception, as Western companies sold and resold rights to a game they didn't own.

Tetris was eventually licensed by a State-owned Russian company to Nintendo for an enormous sum and was even included as a pack-in with the original Game Boy.

Pazhitnov didn't receive any money for his creation until he formed the The Tetris Company LLC in 1996.

Read the whole sordid tale here (Atari HQ)

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