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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'."
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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More to the point, what else has he DONE? I've never heard his name other than in conjunction with Tetris. It's like talking to Don Johnson about Miami Vice. Yeah, he's done other roles, he had a single, but they all* kinda sucked. So every* interview he does, somebody has to ask a question about Miami Vice or Tubbs or pastel t-shirts and suit jackets.
* - pending correction from anal AC
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I guess it depends on "which" Tetris theme you're talking about (since it had a few you could choose from) but the most popular one is actually based off of a Russian folk song, Korobieniki. The band Ozma did a cool rock version of it a few years back. I would link to their mp3.com site where you could get it, but....yeah. I think you can find it on p2p networks though.
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