Tetris as a Sport ?!?!

Alexey Pajitnov (the creator of Tetris) is mighty proud of his work. He has every right to be considering how eternal the game is.

1. Tetris is played to this day (unlike say Doom or MS Flight Simulator)
2. Tetris makes up ten percent of all games sold on mobile phones
3. Tetris always ranks within the top 10 of the "Top XXX Video Games of All Time" lists published by various magazines and websites.

That may seem crazy, but it can be proven how good it is. Pick up Tetris and play it. One hour can go by easily before you realize you're playing a game that is over 20 years old. It's just that good. Well, the ol' Alexey thinks that it should be a sport.

As stated by Henk Rogers President of Tetris Company (a company co-founded by Alexey Pajitnov to market Tetris), "We are going to turn Tetris into the first real virtual sport," Rogers said. "Sports like baseball and football were created at a time when our future was a lifetime of physical activities and physical fitness. But now that's not as important, it's more about mental fitness today."

Interesting, but not far-fetched. In South Korea, video games have become so popular that StarCraft is a televised sport. It would be interesting to see something like that happen in the U.S., but in all likelihood, even considering that more and more people are playing video games today, it would be a long, hard road.