The secret history of Tetris, the Russian game that boosted Nintendo’s profits

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Tetra (Greek four) and Tennis: Tetris. the name is that simple Someone video game most popular logic. And it’s that simple to explain how this revolutionary game was created in the movie ‘Tetris’. The movie is available on its platform AppleTV+It revolves around Henk Rogers, a Dutch video game designer and businessman, and he accomplished the seemingly impossible: to mediate a dispute between Nintendo and Atari to resolve the dispute over the distribution of Tetris to video game consoles and the game’s license. It can be consumed in the innovative Game Boy, the portable game console that has left its mark on video games.

We are in 1988. Rogers is discovering Game designed two years ago by Alekséi Pázhitnov, a computer engineer in the Soviet intelligence service applying their knowledge to computer games. Perestroika was starting to become a reality, but Pázhitnov was unable to obtain the royalties that had become the property of the Soviet Union, despite the lucrativeness of his invention. He did not start to profit financially from the success of Tetris until 1996, when he and Rogers founded The Tetris Company. Rogers was key. As explained in the early sequences of the movie, he not only saw Tetris as the most addictive pastime there could be, but it felt like the perfect video game to him and convinced some investors to back it up.

It meant a turning point for the first consumers of this new form of fun. It is true that Nintendo successfully hit the target a few years ago. ‘Super Mario Brothers’, but Tetris was another story. It’s seemingly simple: Drop the pieces to fill in some gaps on the screen until you get lines that disappear immediately. If four lines are reached, the reward is: you’ve got a tetris. The technique has become a little more sophisticated, but remains true to its essence.: This addiction replaces the famous Pac-Man (Pac-Man) in Rogers’ words and the Mars games that have become popular on arcade ‘arcade’ machines. Rogers was clear: Tetris would also arrive in arcade machines and in the form of video game cartridges. The Game Boy rebellion continued.

video game geopolitics

The film documents the particular geopolitics of video games at the time, the creation of the Game Boy—filmed almost like an enlightenment—at the Nintendo facilities in Seattle, its entry into the struggle of the British firm Mirrorsoft, and a series of more worthy troubles. A tale of espionage in the death rattle of the cold war took place when everyone began to see the enormous success of Pázhitnov’s invention, which would be profitable by Rogers.

Born to an Indonesian family in 1953, the developer of Bullet-Proof Software in Japan and Blue Planet Software in Hawaii, married to a Japanese woman and has three children, introduced the video game ‘The Role’. black onyx’. in the movie starring Taron Egerton, Welsh actor – physically very different from the original Rogers: his non-mimetic “biopic” licenses – who likes to play chameleon with real characters: he played Elton John in “Rocketman” in 2019. Also, “Tetris” director Jon S. Baird is inclined to the biographical genre: his previous feature film “The Fat and the Skinny (Stan & Ollie)” (2018) focuses on the popular comedians’ tour in English. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s mini-series ‘Stonehouse’ (2023) evokes British Labor Party minister John Stonehouse, who went so far as to fake his own death in 1974.

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