“Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work”.
While Tetris is clearly a work of genius and would have been commercially successful no matter what systems it released on, few would have the courage to argue that, without Nintendo’s seminal Game Boy version, the puzzler’s fame would be quite as far-reaching today.
Alexey Pajitnov’s iconic game was famously bundled with Nintendo’s monochrome handheld, turning the portable into a must-have item for millions of people all over the world. The story of how Nintendo secured the rights has been told many times before (and was even transformed into a movie by Apple recently), and Henk Rogers—one of the key figures in the deal—has now told his version via a new memoir, The Perfect Game—Tetris: From Russia With Love.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work”.
While Tetris is clearly a work of genius and would have been commercially successful no matter what systems it released on, few would have the courage to argue that, without Nintendo’s seminal Game Boy version, the puzzler’s fame would be quite as far-reaching today.
Alexey Pajitnov’s iconic game was famously bundled with Nintendo’s monochrome handheld, turning the portable into a must-have item for millions of people all over the world. The story of how Nintendo secured the rights has been told many times before (and was even transformed into a movie by Apple recently), and Henk Rogers—one of the key figures in the deal—has now told his version via a new memoir, The Perfect Game—Tetris: From Russia With Love.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
