Name: Tetris
Rating: 3.736842105263158 (19 reviews)
ISBN: 9781910593226

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Tetris

Box Brown

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 you’ll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You’ll 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, Sega—game 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 Times–bestselling 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 world’s most popular video game.

The Games People Play

Maggie Gordon

Tetris was an impulse grab at the library. I love playing the game (who doesn't?), but what exactly could a book tell me about the game? Turns out the history of Tetris is more complicated than I thought! While I am not sure the story needed a graphic format, I also don't think I would have read an entire book on the subject so... maybe it did need the graphic format to draw readers in. It gives some interesting (though unnecessary) history of Nintendo, and then it gets into the odd background of Tetris, made by a Russian mad and fought over for years by a variety of people around the world. Worth a read at the very least to improve upon one's useless trivia knowledge :)

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