Tetris movie: why the story of the game's origins is legendary

There are very few video game elements that I could describe so simply that even some non-gamers would recognise.

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  • There are very few video game elements that I could describe so simply that even some non-gamers would recognise.
  • But I am, of course, talking about the shapes, or the “tetrominoes”, from the nearly 40-year-old game of Tetris.
  • Alongside Pac-Man, Super Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog, Tetris was one of the first video games to break into popular culture.
  • How else can you explain the recent release of the Tetris movie, starring Taron Egerton?
  • Bizarrely, this film is based on what you think would be the rather dry legal arguments of the intellectual property rights of the game.
  • The machine had no graphical display and so the games were displayed using text but Tetris still hooked many of Pajitnov’s colleagues.
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