Tetris, a historic game that is almost extinct

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Designed in the Soviet Union 30 years ago, video games (video games) Tetris became a real cultural phenomenon around the world, generating billions of dollars throughout its popularity. Since then, the modern Russian video game designer has produced a lot of games, but no one was able to achieve success, like Tetris.

Soviet game designer Alexey Pajitnov Tetris assembling the first prototype on June 6, 1984, but it then fine-tune the new game for several months. Since then, the birth of this brilliant puzzle - at least according to Russian sources - is July 18, 1985. In the summer of 1985, the colored version of this game that has been updated and compatible with IBM computers began to spread among friends and colleagues at the Center Pajitnov computer Dorodnicyn Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Then began the emergence of Tetris - the first time in his home country, and then throughout the world.

Copyright Issues.

Exports of computers and software Soviet formally controlled by the state company Electronorgtekhnika (also known as Elorg). However, even before a formal agreement was signed with the Soviet government, some foreign companies launch a version of this game that is not licensed and sold the copyright to something that is not theirs. This issue is complex, some parties have personal connections with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, finally ended a few years later, and Atari, a foreign company, get a copyright on the arcade version of this game, while Nintendo get home console version.

In 1996, Pajitnov who was then already moved to the United States, founded The Tetris Company and retract copyright of this game for him. He then signed a deal with Elorg. Since then, the designer, who got little benefit from the popularity of the game in the 1980s, receive royalties from all the new launches Tetris (including the latest version of the hardware platform that was launched Ubisoft). This indicates a major issue for programmers of Russia Vadim Gerasimov, who at the age of 16 years helped Pajitnov send this game, which was originally developed for the Soviet computer Electronics-60, to the IBM PC.

Application Killer Game Boy.

Nowadays, almost all types of computers, home gaming platforms, as well as game consoles there are a number of versions of Tetris. Impossible count the number of copies sold since most of them are distributed free of charge as an application preinstallation on a variety of devices. Pajitnov invention became the first game in the mobile phone. In the late 1990s, Russia was invaded by Chinese electronic devices Brick Game, which also includes Tetris as the main game.

However, perhaps the biggest contribution to the digital game industry by Tetris is the launch of the Nintendo Game Boy version. These games help the Japanese company beat the competition and assert their dominance in the console game market is worth billions of dollars. Tetris is still available on the Nintendo 3DS, the modern successor to the Game Boy, but with some additional features, such as multiplayer features that can accommodate eight players as well as augmented reality mode (augmented reality).Russian Classical Games
Western companies, including Nintendo and the American Spectrum Holobyte, began to include some 'flavor Soviet' on Tetris in the late 1980s. For example, photo first man in space Yuri Gagarin and German pilot Mathias Rust (known by its illegal landing near Red Square, Moscow, 1987) was used as a background image in several versions. And, of course, of the song, the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki" which is now known as Tetris theme music internationally.
Currently, the Tetris game is associated with the Russian classic video games, like Pac-Man and Space Invaders, and even referenced in the art. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art of New York City to enter Tetris and 13 other video games in their collection.Games Already Over?
Alexey Pajitnov created about a dozen games after Tetris, but unfortunately nothing is known as popular as Tetris. One of his creations is Hexic, a game that was designed in 2003 and was re-released on a regular basis for the new platform. In this game, the player must arrange hexagonal clusters of the same color. Pajitnov Although often accused of being the creator of the game one-hit-wonder, she replied that Tetris has been the "ancestor" for a new game genre. Therefore, all tile-matching puzzle game of Bejeweled modern to Candy Crush Saga Soviet owe this classic game for his success.

"When I designed the game, I'm afraid I made it too complicated. I think there needs to be some bonus points to certain steps, but with every rule that I created, the more I'm sure the players will get confused. However, if I am re-designing this game, I will not change anything ".
Importance of Tetris for the games industry is difficult to estimate - in fact, the launch of this game by the Game Boy era start 'pocket games', which in the glory days of the game Angry Birds and the kind known as a mobile game.
And of course, Tetris a phenomenon known as indy game. Brilliant concept behind the game is created by one person - Alexey Pajitnov, who later became a living icon of the gaming industry. Even now many indie games quoting peracang Pajitnov when asked how can one person make a successful game. Pajitnov able to do this in the 1980s, and that means someone will be able to do the same thing today.

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