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News - How Tetris was discovered in America - xSicKxBot - 02-06-2018
How Tetris was discovered in America
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/how-tetris-was-discovered-in-america.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><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 the story of Tetris.</p>
<p>The video covers the history of its creator Alexey Pajitnov and contextualizing the political and social climate in which the game’s was developed under. </p>
<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>
<p>In 1984 the Communist Soviet Union struggles with a stagnant economy, the decision to boycott the Summer Olympics, and rising tensions with America from the Cold War.</p>
<p>While the two nations were divided, Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov works diligently on what will later be <em>Tetris</em>.</p>
<p>Originally developed during his spare time at work, Pajitnov creates a prototype of the game using an IBM PC and sennds free copies to friends and colleagues.</p>
<p>From there, it spread across the Soviet Union and eventually made its way to the United States. But how was it discovered?</p>
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