Tetris is one of the most popular and recognized electronic games around the world. Created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, the game has an interesting and unusual story. Now that story will be told in a movie announced for the Apple TV+ platform scheduled for release in 2023. And if you’re looking forward to the movie, we tell you a little about this saga… which will certainly increase your interest in the release.
The concept of the game was so impactful and creative that even today the Tetris “dispute” format has become a reference for thousands of other games, both on consoles and on cell phones and tablets. It’s a form of fun that literally transcends generations and platforms.
Origin of the game
The story begins in the Soviet Union, where Pajitnov was a young programmer working at the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In his spare time, he enjoyed play games puzzle game, which inspired him to create his own game.
Pajitnov began work on a game that consisted of blocks falling from the top of the screen that the player would have to fit together to form complete horizontal lines. He called the creation “Tetris”, a combination of the words “tetra” (four in Greek) and “tennis” (Pajitnov’s favorite sport). The game was simple yet incredibly addictive, and it quickly became popular with Russian gamers.
Popularity in the world
In 1986, the game was licensed to the British company Mirrorsoft and released for personal computers such as the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. The following year, the American company Spectrum Holobyte acquired the rights to distribute the game in the United States. It was at that time that the game exploded in popularity around the world, becoming one of the best-selling video games in history.
Since then, Tetris has been released on virtually every gaming platform, including video game consoles, mobile devices and even calculators. Thus, it has also spawned countless sequels and variations over the years, but the original concept of fitting blocks together to form rows is still what makes the game so appealing to players of all ages.
By Douglas Martinez – Editora Europa
Source: Maxima
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