Viral Tetris

    It’s impossible not to post this wonderful video, quite original embodying one of the oldest computer games.

    Its author is the Swede Guillaume Reymond, who in his Game Over project as soon as he gets hungry, placing people in the audience in every way and then mounting funny videos on the subject of computer mini-games. This video has become truly viral: at the moment it has been watched more than two million times and left 13.5 thousand comments on it.



    Many people know that the wonderful Tetris game was invented in Russia. Until now, it remains one of the few domestic technological innovations that have received worldwide fame. Its author is Alexey Pazhitnov , the legendary Soviet programmer. Once in 1986, he came to work (in the computer center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and, twisting the cubes of a child’s puzzle in his hands, suddenly came up with the idea of ​​a computer game in which various figures are stacked in a glass. The programmed version of the first Tetris took less than three kilobytes. And at first Alexei, instead of finalizing and developing his brainchild, played it without stopping, like a child.

    Subsequently, the game became popular all over the world, but, paradoxically, Pajitnov did not become a multimillionaire: everything that programmers did in the USSR did belong to the state. Therefore, when Tetris was sold to the West, he was forced to relinquish his rights for ten years. Then Alex emigrated to America, where until 2005 he worked at Microsoft. For all the time he participated in the creation of several games on PC and Xbox, including the notorious Pandora's Box , on the box of which is proudly inscribed "From the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov!"

    via Techhh

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