![]() Rogers, on the other hand, had been given a sneak preview of Nintendo’s revolutionary new product: the GameBoy. “The original Tetris was designed specifically for the computer platform,” explains Pajitnov, who had never seen any kind of gaming console in his life. The game’s rather basic original incarnation was understandable. ![]() Gradually, this fiendish new invention made its way to a Las Vegas consumer electronics show, grabbing the attention of Henk Rogers, an American entrepreneur and former game designer who gambled everything on chasing down the global rights to it. Invented in 1984 by Russian coder Alexey Pajitnov, the game’s title came from “tetra” (meaning “four”, a nod to the blocks on screen) and “tennis” (one of Pajitnov’s favourite sports). ![]() “I was like, ‘Is that really true? Wow, that is crazy!’”Ĭrazy doesn’t even begin to cover a story that ties together the Soviet Politburo, the late media mogul Robert Maxwell (that’s Ghislane’s dad, for the uninitiated), and the launch of Nintendo’s iconic GameBoy – as various interested parties all scrambled to get the rights to Tetris. When filmmaker Jon S Baird (of Stan & Ollie and the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth) first heard it, after reading the script for what became his Apple TV+ film Tetris, he did a double take. ![]() But not many know the story behind the game. With its coloured blocks tumbling through the air as players frantically jigsaw them together, Tetris remains one of the world’s most elegantly simple video games. ![]()
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