Tetris - From Russia With Love

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Tetris - From Russia With Love

Posted by simoniker on Thursday February 12, 2004 @04:39AM from the suitable-icon dept.

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'."

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Tetris - Slashdot by vasqzr · 2004-02-12 04:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Maybe there should be a Tetris section

History of Tetris

Tetris related to dreams

Tetris AI webcam system

Micro-tetris

Tetris is hard
20 years later and still popular by Tetrad_of_doom · 2004-02-12 05:15 · Score: 4, Informative

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.
What else he Alexey Pajitnov done by GerritHoll · 2004-02-12 06:36 · Score: 5, Informative
What else has Alexey Pajitnov done, you ask? Here is the complete list
- 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?
1. Re:What else he Alexey Pajitnov done by simoniker · 2004-02-12 07:16 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Actually, a number of those credits are in the 'Special Thanks' section - notably Project Gotham Racing 2 and Rampage Puzzle Attack, which Pajitnov was uninvolved with, but obviously had fans on the development team.
Torrent by Blublu · 2004-02-12 07:23 · Score: 4, Informative

Here is the torrent for that film.

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Tetris Theme Re-Mixed by TubeSteak · 2004-02-12 07:27 · Score: 2, Informative

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.

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o0t!
Great Multiplayer Tetris by CaptainFoo · 2004-02-12 10:30 · Score: 3, Informative

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!