First videogame in space
- Who
- Tetris (Game Boy)
- What
- First
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 01 July 1993
Tetris for Game Boy (Nintendo, 1989) became the first videogame in space when Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov (b. 15 February 1944) packed for his 1993 mission aboard the Mir space station. The cartridge left Earth on the Soyuz TM-17 rocket on 1 July 1993 and returned 196 days 17 hours later, having orbited the Earth more than 3,000 times. Invented in the Soviet Union, Tetris was regarded as an apt game for the cosmonaut. Serebrov's game was later auctioned off in Bonham's 2011 Space History sale for the sum of $1,220.
Bonham's "Provenance" listed as: "Aleksandr A. Serebrov; Russian Space History, Sotheby's, New York, March 16, 1996, lot 395."