Angry Birds is cool I guess, but its in no way original. There's tons of flash games of the same concept that have been around way longer than AB.

Tetris was actually original though, and will probably live on forever.

How is it that we thought of precisely the same song?

I guess it's just the best comparison. One minute everyone was doing the macarena at baseball games, the next it was some lame old relic that everyone laughs at. Angry Birds will follow the exact same trajectory, inshallah!

Underlined for the win.

Variants of the artillery duel stay around for a reason.  Angry Birds is the latest in this type of game.

Alexey Pajitnov actually resides in the US these days, his pal that helped him went crazy and murdered his family with a hammer

and to be fair Henk Rogers was directly involved with introducing Tetris to the world he actually infiltrated Moscow to license tetris and was directly involved with getting nintendo to license tetris

Well thank you for the education on this matter... Do I dare to ask how you know all this? Especially about the murder of the guy's family??  o.O

wrote an essay for an economics class on the effects of the soviet union's economic policies on arts and entertainment during the cold war era.  Was a newspaper article from the city he lived in at the time of the murders titled something like Tetris inventor murders family, obviously I had to know more.   Most everything else was from various economic journals and such

oh yeah, on a whole tetris is a facinating affair in international policy, copyright law, and just about everything,

to read up on the incredible history here is a great place to start

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A938874

Having played Angry Birds it's baffling as to why it's so big .... Rocket Riot and even Cut the Rope are miles better.

Well thanks again for the article link... it is a very interesting read indeed.