Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Dr. Wilson Tetrisov. It was created on June 6, 1984, as the first model of ant colony structure and behavior. Dr. Tetrisov was trying to model worker ant behavior he had observed in laboratory ant farms. He observed that as the ants gathered food and building materials, they appeared to be organizing the materials into specific patterns. He further observed that the ants seemed to be quite competitive and that the most successive organizers were awarded sweet juices from the queen and small pieces of straw. The straw seemed to serve no purpose other than to be used by individual worker ants to tally "points" they had amassed in their organization game. Dr. Tetrisov designed a simple game to mimic this observed behavior which he called Tetris. Later, Dr. Tetrisov's theories were called into question when it was observed that the ant farms he had been studying did not contain any ants. Dr. Tetrisov retired in discrace. However, his modeling program, Tetris, gained wide popularity as a simple puzzle game.