The first game of tetris ever played was in 1732 in the court of King Louis MCLXIX of France. Canvas was stretched over wooden frames and then painted different colors for each level. Servants would lower the blocks via a complicated pulley system while the block masters would flip and guide the blocks as the king commanded. A row of cannons would blast out the lines of blocks as they occurred, (they say a 4 line tetris could be heard as far away as London!) It took 126 servants block masters, and line clearers to run the enourmous device (and many were killed in the process.) The tradition continues to this day at the Festival of Blocks, held in Marseille every winter.