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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 7:08AM Istari Spartan said

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Tetris is awesome.

But didn't he sell the rights to it?
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 7:45AM Ethan said

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He sold it to the (Russian) government. How it ended up with The tetris company I don't know.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 7:49AM derdaim said

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"Unfortunately, because of the communistic ideology I couldn't benefit from it at that time"

He never had the rights because it belongs to mother Russia ^^
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:04PM The Wicker Man said

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In my country, we invent Tetris. One game later, and we want our freedom!
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:48PM Duke said

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My understanding was that the Russian gov screwed him on the whole thing. This is a guy that deserves to get a lot of money for his game and bad politics got in the way.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 3:36PM cuteSAVAGE said

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He actually developed the game while working on projects funded by the Soviet Union. He was employed by the government, and anything he did there would have been government property. It's like creating something for a school project. Whatever you make (especially graded material) is at least partial property of the university.

He does deserve a hell of a lot more recognition for his work though.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:06AM Temidien said

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Still the best 2D game ever. Downvote me all you want, you know Tetris has consumed more hours of your life than all physical activity combined.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 10:05AM DWells55 said

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Tris on the iPhone has claimed so much of my time. I have all these fancy 3D apps with great gameplay on there, but I usually just find myself playing Tris. Shame it got pulled from the App Store due to the BS claim EA made. If your company's $5 game can't beat the gameplay of a free one, just bully a young indie dev out of competition. Classy.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:22AM Zombienutz said

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Thanks for the interview, Kevin. Well done. All this Tetris talk encouraged me to dig out my original GameBoy and Tetris cartridge.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:27AM (Unverified) said

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Was never a Tetris fan, but respect what it did for gaming, those guys are legends.

Would have been since for more history, like the sorry business with Atari and other companies (many brought the rights from someone who didn't have them, only Nintendo went to the Russian government and got the actual rights and lots of suing involved).

And LOL @ "it's addicting" x3... "it's addictIVE" really funny hearing that three times in a row
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:27AM Riley said

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I liked Hexic better
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:58AM StormEagle said

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Thank you. Tetris is not only one of my favorite games of all time, but it inspired other games that make that list such as Dr. Mario and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. I still own my original NES Tetris cartridge, too.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 9:16AM (Unverified) said

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That was a very heart-touching interview and video. Thank you.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 9:56AM Bowser Rogozhin said

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You should have done a write-up, Kelly.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:03PM Slaziman said

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What a nice guy.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:12PM The Wicker Man said

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Guy on right looks like a 55 year old ryan reynolds.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 12:24PM The Wicker Man said

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LEFT! Not Alexey!
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 1:02PM aughscreennames said

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he must be rich as a mofo
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 3:33PM Yan said

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Read through the first few comments.

Pertaining to the interview, I really like how Alexei called Tetris the "first casual game". The original Tetris, of course. The later iterations became quite hardcore.
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 3:53PM tobz1000 said

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"It's addicting."
"It's addicting."
"It's addicting."

FSNARGNLF
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 4:52PM (Unverified) said

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Tetris Butterfly?
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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 8:32PM Roto13 said

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I love his accent. xD
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