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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Yes; but can it... by p4ul13 · 2004-02-12 05:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

run Tetris?
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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