There are video games that hide behind them an exciting story, full of persecutions, thefts, addictions and all kinds of comic situations. Such is the story of the third best-selling game of all time, even though its sales are so difficult to quantify that it has been considered a losing battle. because also It is considered the most cloned video game of all time.
We are talking about Tetris, a small experiment born in a laboratory and which today is one of the most iconic games of all time — every time we order the fridge or the suitcase for the holidays we do a “tetris”, right? The problem arose when its authors considered monetizing it under the iron rules of mother Russia.
Tetris, or the history of the most cloned game of all time
Obtaining the rights to this video game was a real headache due to a good handful of factors. Developed in 1984 at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center by the Russian Alekséi Pázhitnov, who worked in the R&D department, the young man quickly realized a maxim: everything that develops under the cloak of the Soviet Union stays in the Soviet Union. The intellectual property belongs to the state, so forget about profiting from the game, which quickly became such a vital phenomenon that university professors had to uninstall it because productivity had fallen to a minimum.
Well, while other companies were making money from inventions like “Pong”, the Tetris spell took too long to bring benefits to its concept author.
Based on the true story and produced by Apple Original Films, ‘Tetris’ chronicles the journey of Dutchman Henk Rogers to secure the video game rights. Taron Egerton (‘Rocketman’, ‘Black Bird’)
For the script is nothing less than Noah Roseresponsible for the “Genius” series for National Geographic, and we have the realization Jon S. Bairdhead of the comedy Filth (2013), director in series like ‘Babylon’ or the ‘Vinyl’ of Scorsese, además del biopic Stan & Ollie, basado en las vidas de ‘El Gordo y el Flaco’, tal y como fueron conocidos USA.
An exciting story, knowing the hundreds of secrets that this little tetramino game hides and the dozens of clones it has generated – from columns to many versions of similar puzzles. A game that sparked its own debate on kinesthetic syndromes – the so-called “Tetris effect” – fueled by this melody which is none other than the Korobeiniki, a melody based on a courtly poem become an anthem in the history of video games.