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Tetris - From Russia With Love
basilpronoun writes "BBC News has an article about seminal puzzle game Tetris and its inventor Alexey Pajitnov, timed to coincide with further UK screenings of the documentary 'Tetris - From Russia With Love'. There's also an interview with documentary director Magnus Temple in which he comments on Pajitnov: 'He had to be persuaded to get involved. You can imagine what it's like. He invents a game almost 20 years ago and it's the only thing people want to talk to him about even though he's still a professional games designer'."
Its to be expected that people only want to talk to him about Tetris. When a developer makes a really, really good game, most people like to talk about him in a good way. In this case its Tetris. In other cases, like in John Carmack's, they most likely will talk about the original Doom. Not the Quake series because the Quake series didn't have as much as an impact as Doom. Simple at that.
Tetris invents YOU!
thanks to him my brothers and i are still allowed to play video games because my mom got hocked on tetris:) many happy hours of game play came about because of him, we will never be able to pay off the debt...
'timed to coincide with the UK screening of the documentary 'Tetris - From Russia With Love' it was on last week.
Maybe there should be a Tetris section
History of Tetris
Tetris related to dreams
Tetris AI webcam system
Micro-tetris
Tetris is hard
How many platforms have a version of tetris, not to mention all the various variants of the game?
The article mentions:
Available on more than 60 platforms, including handheld games machines and wrist watches
I'd be curious to see the list that they used for that figure. I have a suspicion that this is refering to official releases of the game. If the various shareware and freeware versions were considered the number might be much much higher..
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He invents a game almost 20 years ago and it's the only thing people want to talk to him about even though he's still a professional games designer.
Yeah, but what does he say about Tetris?
With games continually getting more complicated, you can still find thousands of people playing Tetris online (at least on XBox Live). It is a great argument for simplicity in game design.
One thing did bug me about the article:
"..creating solid lines out of rapidly descending T-shaped on-screen blocks.
Only about 1/7 of the blocks that you see in Tetris will be T-shaped, and there are some variations of Tetris in which the proportion is less.
- Project Gotham Racing 2 (2003), Microsoft
- Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001), Midway Games
- Tetris Worlds (2001), THQ Inc.
- Microsoft Puzzle Collection Entertainment Pack (2000), Swing! Entertainment Media AG
- The Next Tetris: Online Edition (2000), Crave Entertainment, Inc.
- Pandora's Box (1999), Microsoft
- Knight Moves (1996), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Breakthru! (1994), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- El-Fish (1993), Maxis Software Inc.
- Super Tetris (1991), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Faces (1990), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Welltris (1989), Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.
- Tetris (original) (1986)
Conclusion: He hasn't done much beyond Tetris indeed. Apart from El-Fish, Knight Moves, Pandora's Box, Puzzle Collection, Rampage Puzzle and Gotham Racing, they're all Tetris variants.But isn't Tetris more than enough to contribute to Humanity?
Tetris: From Russia with Love is broadcast in the UK on BBC Four on Thursday, 12 February, at 1900 GMT and Sunday, 15 February, at 2205 GMT.
Here is the torrent for that film.
meh
http://www.ocremix.org
Perhaps the most famous remix is by DJ Venom & opens with the line:
"Lets play some Tetris motherfuckers"
Too bad its not on that site.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I've always liked Tetris - The Spy Who Loved Me better. I think we can all agree that Roger Moore was the best Tetris.
On the original snes tetris game was is the highest number of lines anyone got to?
Not highest score but highest number of lines?
"As Tetris reaches a whole new generation through mobile phones, with even bigger fortunes to be made, Pajitnov remains philosophical about his place as a cog in the great capitalist machinery. "You could always make a little more," he says, "but I never seriously think about this stuff. I live as I live.""
..anyways..
I had tetris on my Benefon iO back in 1999(also iirc it was the first one with t9 predictive text input). nice phone but wasnt exactly sturdy when it came to meeting the asfalt(also was my first phone as I hadn't really needed one before getting the driving license anyways, if you're driving alone in finnish winter you better a phone comes _real_ handy in the case of unforeseen).
so it isn't exactly 'new' on phones, though I suspect it was under a guise of different name on it(it had also a minesweeper clone and a sort of a space invaders clone)..
tetris is a great concept game, _easy_ to play and easily hardened gradually(just make it go faster). though I personally enjoyed the 'super tetris' variant on pc most of them.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I have been a huge Tetris fan for many years, but the last year I have only played Multris. It sports a rather nifty multiplayer mode, and there are competition at all levels, some of the guys are just unbelivable. I guess my girlfriend would have been a lot happier if the high score lists hadn't been there though...
Some say Tetris is dead, but for me it's actually the only game I come back to time and again. Tetris forever!
Sorry - if you want to look for the song it'll probably be spelled "Korobeiniki".
I belong to the ______ generation.
This has already been mentioned below, but I dug up the link and I think it deserves its own thread: LINK
One of the labs at my University has the infamous Tetris oscilloscopes. Hoo mamma, when I discovered that little "feature" I was one happy camper.
...Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Churchill