![]() ![]() Soon it was on most computers in various Soviet organisations. The machine had no graphical display and so the games were displayed using text but Tetris still hooked many of Pajitnov’s colleagues. The official trailer for the Tetris movie on Apple TV+īut within games lore, the tale of how Tetris came to be is legendary.Īlexey Pajitnov, a speech recognition researcher at the Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences, developed a range of puzzle games in the early 1980s, by “borrowing” spare time on his workplace’s Electronika 60 computer. How else can you explain the recent release of the Tetris movie, starring Taron Egerton? Bizarrely, this film is based on what you think would be the rather dry legal arguments of the intellectual property rights of the game. But I am, of course, talking about the shapes, or the “tetrominoes”, from the nearly 40-year-old game of Tetris.Īlongside Pac-Man, Super Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog, Tetris was one of the first video games to break into popular culture. There are very few video game elements that I could describe so simply that even some non-gamers would recognise. They are bold in colour, now a bit scratched with flaking paint, but with clear geometric designs: a squat Z, S and T, an L, a J, a square and lastly, the ever useful long bar.Įven as a lecturer in games development, I don’t tend to wear my game affiliations that boldly but these cufflinks, the odd badge and my Minecraft waistcoat are exceptions. On my bedside cabinet, next to my alarm clock, is a jar holding my cufflink collection.
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