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In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle game called Tetris. It soon gained a cult following within the Soviet Union. A battle for the rights to publish Tetris erupted when the game crossed the Iron Curtain. Tetris not only took the video game industry by storm, it helped break the boundaries between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Intro – 00:00
Part 1: Pajitnov – 01:49
Part 2: Into the West – 10:03
Part 3: The Red Box – 17:19
Part 4: Enter Nintendo – 23:50
Part 5: Capitalism – 33:38
Part 6: Endgame – 44:12
End Credits – 55:38
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LOL, something about Russia and not a single russian comment? Как необычно 🙂 Great video, thank you for your work! I know all parts of this story, but that was great to watch them again, combined in one single film.
Great video – owed quite a lot to the BBC documentary "Tetris – From Russia With Love", including some screenshots but you added some extra information that wasn't covered which was appreciated. Definitely could see this story as a movie there's so much detail, thanks for taking the time to get this finally uploaded!
This was extremely hard to follow.
This…this is a glory to behold, you sir, are a gift to this world. I'm so happy I'm able to witness this.
holobyte sounds like something from the hellraiser movie
The hand drawn illustrations are great. Dig the subtle Garfield references in the background.
Great Job Norman. It's refreshing to see a history of a game where business is protagonist. It remind us that video games are nothing more and nothing less than a cultural industry. Actually, one may think of a non-market driven history of Tetris only in the USSR before ELORG came in. Honestly, we know very little of the soviet video game scene. We need more documentaries like yours to begin to understand better in what kind of activity we gamers are embedded into.
Great, great video. And now i know why i like hexic so much 😀
This one is amazing! You're work gets better all the time!
That was amazing.
There’s literally nothing wrong with communism
What a crazy and convoluted story. It went all the way up to Gorbachev! Nice that it had a happy ending. Except for that guy that murdered his wife and kid.
Excellent production Norm! I've been a fan of your channel for years now but I've got to say the videos you're outputting are exponentially getting better. This seems more than than a lot of the docs on Netflix!
"The Jew fears the Samurai"
— Shigeru Miyamoto, 2017
Knew that was LGR doing that quote!
Masterpiece!
OMG so worth the wait. Thanks a lot for this video!
Commie discovers the machinations of capitalism, masters it in a month. That's some raw business sense.
56:20 accidental naked drowning and heart attack in the ocean…hmmmmm well thats bullshit. Suicide or murder who knows.
Anyone else annoyed throughout the video because of the bad Tetris game play?
This is, so far, the greatest episode of the gaming historian 😀
This is by far the best video on this subject I have ever seen. Super well done, very interesting stuff. Congratulations.
Of course the filthy jew tries to make money off the white mans work. They truly are fucking sub human trash.
What a superb video, congrats
Great video! You could make a spy movie out of this story.
Love the video!!! And great version of the Tetris theme at the end, it's been stuck in my head ever since I first watched this
This is great. I've heard some stuff about this but hearing all of this is amazing. All this stuff going on while I sat in front of my TV playing tetris.
I'm from soviet union 2 years after soviet Union fell apart
Masterpiece.Bravo!
Lol I went back to Ukraine in 2004 quite a while ago and Tetris
Great use of caricature drawings to explain meetings between the key players. I remember seeing a BBC documentary on the story of Tetris and if anything I think your version is more complete. The BBC version did have footage interviews with all of the key players, and Henk Rogers does come across as a class act. Not only was he the only person to take a genuine interest in the original creator, he become a close friend and business partner to him, he tried to negotiate royalties for him in the original Nintendo contract but was vetoed by the Russians, but he later helped correct this wrong by negotiating back partial ownership of Tetris to the original creator with the Tetris Company. It is good to know there are people like this in business.
communists arguing for property rights XD
I took a test on Tetris today
P.S. this was published on Feb 9th the Friday in 2018
Excellent work , Norm. Well worth the wait. Looking forward to your next project! Thanks for doing what you do!