Can Tetris be made without using XNA currently? Using C#?

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I have an outdated computer, that currently will not run certain XNA components. I am a beginner at this stuff, so I'm looking to get some other programming stuff done before I get a new computer that can run XNA and everything else. But is Tetris easy to make without XNA?

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