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By the mid 1990s a version of the game became a Latvian television series (with a parliamentary setting, and played by Latvian celebrities). In the 1990s it began to be played in other parts of Europe and then the United States. It became popular in other Soviet colleges and schools, often associated with hugely popular TV series La Piovra, which first ran in 1986. He developed the game to combine psychology research with his duties teaching high school students. Wired attributes the creation to Davidoff and also dates the first game to 1987. He dates the first game of Mafia to spring 1987 at the Psychology Department of Moscow State University, from where it spread to the classrooms, dorms, and summer camps of Moscow University.