num_pages: 253
description: It is perhaps the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive Tetris delivers an irresistible unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and youll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. Youll see them in your dreams.Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984 he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain it was an instant hit. Nintendo Atari Segagame developers big and small all wanted Tetris. A bidding war was sparked followed by clandestine trips to Moscow backroom deals innumerable miscommunications and outright theft.In this graphic novel New York Timesbestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and delves deep into the role games play in art culture and commerce. For the first time and in unparalleled detail Tetris: The Games People Play tells the true story of the worlds most popular video game.
language: English
title: Tetris: The Games People Play
publisher: First Second