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Tetris celebrates 25 years
The game was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
It has sold more than 70 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two decades and even been played on the side of a skyscraper.
The game was first made available on the IBM computer, but it didn't become a major hit until it was launched on Nintendo's Game Boy handheld console in 1989. According to The Tetris Co., the Game Boy version of Tetris sold more than 35 million copies.
Despite the record-breaking popularity of Mr Pajitnov's creation, the royalties from the game were claimed by the Kremlin rather than the Russian programmer.
He finally began earning money from the game after he moved to the US and the rights reverted back to him in 1996.
Mr Pajitnov, speaking in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, described how he came up with the idea to distract him from his work on a large Soviet-built Elektronika 60 computer.
He said: "I started to put together all kinds of mathematical puzzles and diversions that I had loved all my life.
"The program wasn't complicated. There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn't stop.
"I think that most of the classic games written in the 80s or early 90s are dead just because their authors or owners didn't care about them."
He chose the name Tetris by combining the words "tennis", his favourite sport, and "tetra", a Greek prefix. The variously shaped groups of blocks that fall down the screen are called tetrominoes.
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The game was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
It has sold more than 70 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two decades and even been played on the side of a skyscraper.
The game was first made available on the IBM computer, but it didn't become a major hit until it was launched on Nintendo's Game Boy handheld console in 1989. According to The Tetris Co., the Game Boy version of Tetris sold more than 35 million copies.
Despite the record-breaking popularity of Mr Pajitnov's creation, the royalties from the game were claimed by the Kremlin rather than the Russian programmer.
He finally began earning money from the game after he moved to the US and the rights reverted back to him in 1996.
Mr Pajitnov, speaking in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, described how he came up with the idea to distract him from his work on a large Soviet-built Elektronika 60 computer.
He said: "I started to put together all kinds of mathematical puzzles and diversions that I had loved all my life.
"The program wasn't complicated. There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn't stop.
"I think that most of the classic games written in the 80s or early 90s are dead just because their authors or owners didn't care about them."
He chose the name Tetris by combining the words "tennis", his favourite sport, and "tetra", a Greek prefix. The variously shaped groups of blocks that fall down the screen are called tetrominoes.
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in telegraph.co.uk
8 comentários:
O jogo aparece cortado, mas a única coisa que fica de fora (pelo menos no meu monitor!) são as instruções. Dado que se trata do Tetris nãoachei grave! =P O jogo propriamente dito a mim cabe.
bah! perdi no level 8 xp
(eu só joguei até ao 2! xD Nunca tive grande pachorra para o Tetris! xD)
knd era pekano tinha uma makina de tétris tãn linda!! (dps tive o gameboy e nunca mais lhe tokei! xD)
mas sim, é chato dps de 1 bocado os níveis começarem inevitavelmente a ser repetitivos :P
btw, por falar em jogos de infância, alguém conhece o brix?
passava horas a jogar isto:
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/102
é de 1992, try it!! :D
que maldade terem posto aqui o joguinho! uma pessoa tem de trabalhar e fica aqui coladona!!!
ai ai ai ai!
é n é?
o orlanaaando só desencaminha o pessoal!!! (eheh ;D)
1. viciados! haha!
2. que tal foi o freeze? não há fotos? vídeos?
3. para quem gostou dos real combo lisbonense em serralves:
http://blitz.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=bz.stories/45907
:)
Do freeze ainda não descobri nada, nem fotos nem vídeos... Também queria ver... Estar lá não permite perceber se tem ou não impacto!
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