it’s the Soviet mind game welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the history of
Tetris the story of this popular video
game began as the Cold War raged in the
USSR during this period russian engineer
alexey pajitnov was working at the
soviet academy of sciences in moscow and
it was there that he tried to bring his
favorite game to the computer screen in
1984 tetrominoes involved fitting
different geometric shapes into a
rectangle without any spaces with help
from colleague Dmitri pokrovsky Paget
knob developed a simple computer game
using basic graphics and no sound on an
electronica 60 Paget knobs game took the
principles involved in tetrominoes and
added the challenge of gravity the
blocks in his game were comprised of
four squares that formed different
shapes and they would fall at
increasingly higher speeds as the levels
passed the aim was to make full
horizontal lines which would then
disappear if a gap was left in the line
that line would remain until the player
was able to fill the hole all the game
needed was a name Padgett knob took his
inspiration tetrominoes added his
favorite sport tennis and tetris was
born Padgett nobs colleague Vadim garage
Emma soon ported the game to the IBM PC
it wasn’t long before co-workers at the
computer center were all addicted to
Tetris Luigi nauseous at release at the
eager just was sharper boot in the
summer of 1985 a color version was
created and it was this edition that
quickly spread through Moscow eventually
tetris made its way to Budapest Hungary
where a British software company came
across it because passion I’ve worked
for the Soviet government his
intellectual property was owned by the
state for this reason it took him years
to claim any money from his creation we
didn’t have the idea that the software
Southland coaches could be considered as
a product or be sold or protected or
whatever
made no sense for us at all
Tetris soon became the subject of a
rights war between the Soviet
government’s Foreign Trade Organisation
île org and a number of Western
companies in the midst of these legal
battles a questionably official PC
version of Tetris hit the United States
market in 1986 Tetris was the first
Soviet game to make it to us audiences
and it was marketed as a piece of
culture from behind the Iron Curtain it
was vastly different from everything
else on the US market at the time
instead of shooting guns and chases it
was a game of order and thought like
everyone who had played the game before
them the American public became addicted
to Tetris and the Soviet mine game was a
huge hit but still no one officially had
rights to the game finally after years
of back-and-forth between numerous
companies including video games ient
Atari Hank Rogers and Nintendo emerged
as winners of the Tetris rights in 1989
Nintendo decided to bundle Tetris with
their popular home console the NES as
well as their new handheld terminal the
Gameboy in the hope that the game would
help their products appeal to a wider
audience plus Gaytan boy comes with the
ALB regis new game Tetris the original
game boy version featured grayscale
graphics and iconic theme music and was
similar to passion ops original creation
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in 1996 Padgett na finally began
receiving royalties
when rights to the game reverted from
Russia to him that year he and Hank
Rogers started the tetris company to
manage licensing in the u.s. Pajitnov
also began working for Microsoft in 1996
after moving to the States five years
earlier following years of popularity on
the market the game was the subject of
scientific study it was found that
prolonged play caused users to see the
real world as a game of tetris in terms
of how things fit together perfect this
was officially categorized as a form of
hallucination and was nicknamed the
tetris effect in 2012 it was also
suggested that the game could help
prevent symptoms of post-traumatic
stress disorder since its creation
tetris has become a phenomenon that
spans cultures and races and appeals to
the gamer in everyone it has spawned
sequels imitators and improvements is
available on numerous devices and
continues to sell millions of copies as
one of history’s most popular video
games experts claim tetris can never be
won but it sure is fun to try
[Music]
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watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the history of
Tetris the story of this popular video
game began as the Cold War raged in the
USSR during this period russian engineer
alexey pajitnov was working at the
soviet academy of sciences in moscow and
it was there that he tried to bring his
favorite game to the computer screen in
1984 tetrominoes involved fitting
different geometric shapes into a
rectangle without any spaces with help
from colleague Dmitri pokrovsky Paget
knob developed a simple computer game
using basic graphics and no sound on an
electronica 60 Paget knobs game took the
principles involved in tetrominoes and
added the challenge of gravity the
blocks in his game were comprised of
four squares that formed different
shapes and they would fall at
increasingly higher speeds as the levels
passed the aim was to make full
horizontal lines which would then
disappear if a gap was left in the line
that line would remain until the player
was able to fill the hole all the game
needed was a name Padgett knob took his
inspiration tetrominoes added his
favorite sport tennis and tetris was
born Padgett nobs colleague Vadim garage
Emma soon ported the game to the IBM PC
it wasn’t long before co-workers at the
computer center were all addicted to
Tetris Luigi nauseous at release at the
eager just was sharper boot in the
summer of 1985 a color version was
created and it was this edition that
quickly spread through Moscow eventually
tetris made its way to Budapest Hungary
where a British software company came
across it because passion I’ve worked
for the Soviet government his
intellectual property was owned by the
state for this reason it took him years
to claim any money from his creation we
didn’t have the idea that the software
Southland coaches could be considered as
a product or be sold or protected or
whatever
made no sense for us at all
Tetris soon became the subject of a
rights war between the Soviet
government’s Foreign Trade Organisation
île org and a number of Western
companies in the midst of these legal
battles a questionably official PC
version of Tetris hit the United States
market in 1986 Tetris was the first
Soviet game to make it to us audiences
and it was marketed as a piece of
culture from behind the Iron Curtain it
was vastly different from everything
else on the US market at the time
instead of shooting guns and chases it
was a game of order and thought like
everyone who had played the game before
them the American public became addicted
to Tetris and the Soviet mine game was a
huge hit but still no one officially had
rights to the game finally after years
of back-and-forth between numerous
companies including video games ient
Atari Hank Rogers and Nintendo emerged
as winners of the Tetris rights in 1989
Nintendo decided to bundle Tetris with
their popular home console the NES as
well as their new handheld terminal the
Gameboy in the hope that the game would
help their products appeal to a wider
audience plus Gaytan boy comes with the
ALB regis new game Tetris the original
game boy version featured grayscale
graphics and iconic theme music and was
similar to passion ops original creation
[Music]
in 1996 Padgett na finally began
receiving royalties
when rights to the game reverted from
Russia to him that year he and Hank
Rogers started the tetris company to
manage licensing in the u.s. Pajitnov
also began working for Microsoft in 1996
after moving to the States five years
earlier following years of popularity on
the market the game was the subject of
scientific study it was found that
prolonged play caused users to see the
real world as a game of tetris in terms
of how things fit together perfect this
was officially categorized as a form of
hallucination and was nicknamed the
tetris effect in 2012 it was also
suggested that the game could help
prevent symptoms of post-traumatic
stress disorder since its creation
tetris has become a phenomenon that
spans cultures and races and appeals to
the gamer in everyone it has spawned
sequels imitators and improvements is
available on numerous devices and
continues to sell millions of copies as
one of history’s most popular video
games experts claim tetris can never be
won but it sure is fun to try
[Music]
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