Tetris - From Russia With Fun
By Kolb
Tetris is the best puzzle game in the world. It has been said by many because it's true.
The Tetris history is quite complicated if you look into it in detail. But here is a timeline.
- 1985: Alexey Pazhitnov creates Tetris in Moscow, while working for a government organization.
- 1988: Tetris is the best selling computer game in the USA and the UK.
- 1989: Nintendo buys the exclusive console rights. Tetris is bundled with the new Game Boy system. An instant hit.
- 2006: I'm still playing it.
Just recently I started playing Tetris again. What a great game. Simple but yet so hard to keep up with at some point.
When playing the A-Type Game, reaching 100,000 to 149,999 points will get you an animation of a small rocket lifting off. At 150,000 to 199,999 points, a slightly larger rocket will be rewarded. From 200,000 to 999,999 you will get the largest rocket, which is a large Russian-styled rocket.
When playing Mode B, completing the game at any of the level 9 stages rewards you with dancers and musicians. Completing level 9 with the height setting at 5 gets a large NASA-styled shuttle, which may be a reference to the abandoned Soviet Buran shuttle, which was later in development than the original US shuttle.
Tetris was probably one of the first real mainstream games in the Sovjetempire that crossed the iron curtain to the west.
Sales figures are hard to find because of the many Tetris variations. But Nintendo alone sold 30 million Game Boy bundled with the Tetris game. Enormous. Alexey Pazhitnov, the creator of the game did not made any money from it's invention because he worked for a government organization, and in Sovjet Russia, intellectual property was owned by the state.
Check out this video compilation of Tetris game play. This guy hits the maximum score playing at level 20. Extremely fast. At the end, an oldskool Russian rocket. And the dancing Russian characters with the abandoned Russian Buran space shuttle. Worth a watch.
Have you ever reached the point you could see those cool animations? I still haven't. But I'll give it yet one more try.
- Tetris: a history
- BBC documentary about the rise of Tetris. Covers license rivaleries, communism and the creators
Nov 24, 02:56 AM, Kolb
That’s probably the coolest tetris video I’ve ever seen :p. Too bad the space shuttle doesn’t blow up, like in real life :p.
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