{"id":16539,"date":"2024-11-13T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/tetris-forever-is-the-real-story-of-tetris-and-its-fascinating\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:37:39","slug":"tetris-forever-is-the-real-story-of-tetris-and-its-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/tetris-forever-is-the-real-story-of-tetris-and-its-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Forever is the real story of Tetris – and it\u2019s fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse goes deep on the 40-year history of Tetris<\/p>\n

Believe me when I say: I truly thought I knew the story of Tetris. The puzzle game\u2019s journey from behind the iron curtain in 1980s Moscow to multi-million-selling video game has been the subject of countless articles<\/a>, a greatly entertaining book<\/a> and<\/em> a recent film<\/a>. I have played Tetris in various forms for more than 30 years, from the Game Boy to the Nintendo Switch, even in VR<\/a>. So when I loaded up Tetris Forever, an interactive documentary on Tetris\u2019s 40-year history from the developers-slash-archivists at Digital Eclipse, I wasn\u2019t expecting to learn anything new. I was proven very <\/em>wrong.<\/p>\n

Did you know about Hatris, the 1990 Tetris follow-up that involved stacking colourful hats on top of heads? I did, vaguely, but I did not <\/em>know about the semi-authorised twist on that game put out by Spectrum Holobyte the same year, a mildly horrifying swap-and-drop puzzler that had players stacking up mouths, noses and eyes to try to make human faces. They called it Faces\u2026tris III, which suggests that whoever named it gave up halfway through. No wonder it wasn\u2019t a hit. I didn\u2019t know that Henk Rogers, the charismatic Dutch-American who played a huge part in turning Tetris into a global phenomenon, spent his student years surfing and diving in Hawaii before (his words) chasing a girl to Japan and coding the country\u2019s first bestselling RPG in 1984.<\/p>\n

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\nAn interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse goes deep on the 40-year history of Tetris
\nBelieve me when I say: I truly thought I knew the story of Tetris. The puzzle game\u2019s journey from behind the iron curtain in 1980s Moscow to multi-million-selling video game has been the subject of countless articles, a greatly entertaining book and a recent film. I have played Tetris in various forms for more than 30 years, from the Game Boy to the Nintendo Switch, even in VR. So when I loaded up Tetris Forever, an interactive documentary on Tetris\u2019s 40-year history from the developers-slash-archivists at Digital Eclipse, I wasn\u2019t expecting to learn anything new. I was proven very wrong.
\nDid you know about Hatris, the 1990 Tetris follow-up that involved stacking colourful hats on top of heads? I did, vaguely, but I did not know about the semi-authorised twist on that game put out by Spectrum Holobyte the same year, a mildly horrifying swap-and-drop puzzler that had players stacking up mouths, noses and eyes to try to make human faces. They called it Faces\u2026tris III, which suggests that whoever named it gave up halfway through. No wonder it wasn\u2019t a hit. I didn\u2019t know that Henk Rogers, the charismatic Dutch-American who played a huge part in turning Tetris into a global phenomenon, spent his student years surfing and diving in Hawaii before (his words) chasing a girl to Japan and coding the country\u2019s first bestselling RPG in 1984. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse goes deep on the 40-year history of Tetris Believe me when I say: I truly thought I knew the story of Tetris. The puzzle game\u2019s journey from behind the iron curtain in 1980s Moscow to multi-million-selling video game has been the subject of countless articles, a greatly entertaining book …<\/p>\n

Tetris Forever is the real story of Tetris – and it\u2019s fascinating<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}