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'."

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Why only Tetris

[MMaestro]

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.

Re:Why only Tetris

[simoniker]

I think Pajitnov definitely didn't help his cause of only being known for a certain product by producing a lot of other '...tris' games - I particularly remember Hatris, which is a pretty wacky idea conceptually.

However, he did design Pandora's Box for Microsoft, which is a wonderful example of a classical puzzle game (not Tetris-like, more jigsaw-like, but with much more complexity and 3D puzzles of many kinds), which is, imho, very under-rated.