{"id":12025,"date":"2018-02-02T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314260"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:04:00","slug":"how-tetris-was-discovered-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/how-tetris-was-discovered-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tetris was discovered in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced video game historian Norman Caruso has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg\">a new video<\/a> to his Gaming Historian YouTube channel which breaks down\u00a0the story of Tetris.<\/p>\n<p>The video covers the history of its creator Alexey\u00a0Pajitnov\u00a0and contextualizing the political and social climate in which\u00a0the game&#8217;s was developed under.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What follows is an interesting look into how <em>Tetris<\/em> eventually came to America, and how it was marketed and published for a Western audience.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984\u00a0the\u00a0Communist Soviet Union struggles with a stagnant economy, the decision to boycott the Summer Olympics, and rising tensions with America from the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>While the two nations were divided, Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov works diligently on what will later be <em>Tetris<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally developed during his spare time at work, Pajitnov\u00a0creates a prototype of the game using an IBM PC and sennds\u00a0free copies to friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>From there, it spread across the Soviet Union and eventually made its way to the United States. But how was it discovered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced video game historian Norman Caruso has published a new video to his Gaming Historian YouTube channel which breaks down\u00a0the story of Tetris. The video covers the history of its creator Alexey\u00a0Pajitnov\u00a0and contextualizing the political and social climate in which\u00a0the game&#8217;s was developed under.\u00a0 What follows is an interesting look into how Tetris eventually came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}