Original Tetris game

[JayGB87]

Even the beeps sound russian

[ProdigyWright]

In Soviet Russia, Tetris play you!

[Teufeldolch]

So Tetris originated in Soviet Russia?

Thanks, communism!

[EdisParkour]

домой себе хочу такую :D

[szbszig]

What happened at 1:26 and 1:49?

[rik001ful]

There is a bug in the minute 1:25

[VASYlisk61]

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[PureEbil1]

I would like to see someone good play this :P lol

[BVargas78]

Cool vid, but does anyone have footage of the first russian/soviet tetris arcade rather than a home computer?

[lautenaus]

@BVargas78 DVK-2 is not a home computer.

[BVargas78]

@lautenaus ah ok, guess it was used for work purposes then by the gov. Still, did you ever play the original soviet arcade machine of tetris? Where graphics colourful or similar to this?

[lautenaus]

@BVargas78 I don't know Soviet made Tetris arcade machines.

[Galfonz]

Looks like an old DEC operating system

[Despatche]

@Galfonz it is, for the most part. the E-60 was a clone of a PDP-11.

[lautenaus]

@Galfonz In 3:07 you may see "RT-11SJ"

[dmenkhau]

Where can you get this, and can it run on a regular PC? Did you get it on a cartridge or a file?

[lautenaus]

@dmenkhau No, I have not copies for the PC. Diskette format is incompatible.

[dmenkhau]

@lautenaus Okay, thank you.

[seth5220]

I know of computers like that really cheap graphics and they were just replaced

[lautenaus]

@seth5220 This computer has not any graphics.

[seth5220]

There are actual computers like that from the late 1980's and early 90's that have those kind of graphics. What you know of old school might be right if you saw the USSR or CCCP fall

[spammanism]

what the hell happened that you had to turn it off?

[hdslshr]

<3 2:32

[ComradeZX]

is this available to buy second hand. if so where. cheers.

[sackboy1993]

you are so epically good at tetris!!!

[hurricaneomega]

You can practically smell the opression

[19thefreak96]

look at the stone at 1:47 suddenly there was one more

[formicFabricant]

@19thefreak96 yup, that was probably the result of bad scheduling in the game loop. it started locking the piece while the user still had control of its movement.

[jamyskis]

This is one of those videos that is worthy of preservation for conserving our video gaming heritage. Videos like this beat simple screencasts anyday.

Videos like this remind me that the computers of 1980s USSR and the high-tech consoles and PCs of today do have plenty in common - not only with Tetris being available on all of them, but with that BLOODY FAN! *lol*

[mme725]

i so want a copy oAo even if I can't run it...

[s1lv3rblaz3]

man this is for realz old school. awesome

[douro20]

A PDP-11 compatible desktop machine which I understand was quite expensive. It uses the K1801VM1 main processor (an indigenously developed LSI-11 compatible processor) and has 28K words (56KB) of RAM.

[douro20]

Oh, and it also runs RT-11SJ from floppy or HDD.

[ChibiFighter]

I want to personally Thank you lautenaus for capturing this I never thought I would ever be able to see Footage of this. Thank you!.

[deepshockonYT]

Never thought I'd see this. :D

Amazing.

[RihardsLacplesis]

Although you suck at the game, it's great that you posted this. I'd been long expecting this.

[ra1618]

What is the size (in kilobytes) of this Tetris program?

[lautenaus]

@ra1618 27 sectors (x512 bytes each)

[ra1618]

@lautenaus 14 kilobytes! Cool! ))

[Andthatswhymacssuck]

@lautenaus Which means under 14 kb

[kati667]

ого... круто! я первый тетрис на денди видела

[MrSaturn33]

Is there any way at all to emulate this? If so, I must!!

[xXomnomnomnxX]

Jeeze that thing is a dinosaur!!!

[oldstops]

я играл в такой тетрис, в 80-ых, на одном из омских заводов - нас на экскурсию тогда туда водили, показывали персональные компьютеры

в продаже их тогда небыло ещё :)

[RoyalPredator]

Wasnt Tetris designed to kill the keyboard? :D

Well, happy 26th Birthday, TETRIS!! <3

[Dygeron92]

This is a piece of history right here. I think the release date for this game was 1984, 5 years before the Gameboy version. Pity Alexei Pajitnov never made a profit off of this until 1996.

Amazing. I like the monochromatic graphics, the beeping sounds, and the fact that the computer sounds like an industrial size fan. Makes me feel old...

[tengokunoshi]

kruto ^o^

[AYust22]

Cool~! can I play this online? ;)

[azywoozzy]

1:23 bug?

[dron48]

@azywoozzy feature! autocompletion if you press control+space

[totalamd]

@azywoozzy really odd behavior of those two pxls.

[alex9044]

@espejismooo Dude, the guy who said that joke from scene is not funny and stupid. Don't be stupid too. This joke is not funny beyond US borders.

[WassPogue]

ah! 2:50 the sound of booting from the 5" floppy disk ― will never forget it :)

[Liynkx]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

[lautenaus]

leningrad su/museum/

[peepeevagi]

In soviet russia we do not have time NOR the resources to be wasting time on such games.

Lol, and this cant be a russian computer. Their text is yellow and backgrounds red.

[Thomsonicus]

where did you gete the game? ;-)

[earthdome111]

First time playing Tetris?

Love the machine noise!

[douro20]

DVK-2, a PDP11-compatible desktop computer, running RT11 SJ...from a floppy, no less. I like the runtime display on the right hand side of the screen...

[douro20]

Vadim Gerasimov still maintains the PC port to this day...

[psycholian]

where's the music?

[DuckReconMajor]

This is really cool. Are you the one playing this?

[lautenaus]

Yes, I am. :)

[leoemcee]

Помню, что тормоза ДВК не позволяли нормально поиграть в тетрис... На данном видео это хорошо видно. )

Интересно, остались ли в настоящее время где-либо эти диалоговые комплексы или все они были в своё время разобраны на драг. металлы?

[lautenaus]

Их очень сложно достать. Но иногда получается. В основном они все утилизированы.

[alex9044]

@leoemcee До фига их. Восстановить их в рабочее состояние только сложно. С долговечностью и надежностью у них... Да и потом на фига они нужны? Есть симуляторы и всякие УКНЦ, БК-0011,которых еще больше и которые совместимы.

[leoemcee]

Это ж ДВК-2 (или ДВК-3)?! :)

[lautenaus]

ДВК-2

[NJMJanik]

Классно, себе хочу такой же комп!

[xp00n]

охуенная вещь ))

[Unrealshade]

the sound :D so cool and oldschool!

[kinglonewolf104]

Cool video. Tetris is awesome, I love the Game Boy version.

&eB

[stas080]

Really great upload, thanks so much!

[XpeNoBiHa]

Когда смотрел ролик всё время вспоминался фолаут )))) Я года 3 наверно в тетрис играл постоянно когда то...

[jujube4000]

awesome :D

whoa, what happened at 1:25? looks like a bug.

[lautenaus]

Yes, this is a bug.

[colourthief]

Thank you for uploading this!

I thought the original tetris used square brackets for the pieces like this:

[ ]

[ ][ ][ ]

Is this an even earlier version?

[lautenaus]

This an interesting question. This Tetris has length with 27 block size and name TETRIS.SAV. Another version has 8 blocks and [ ] symbols.

27 bloks means that this program was written on the Pascal.

I guess that English version was arrived later. And also I think that [ ] symbols in English version was placed, because original VT-52 videoterminal has not symbol with code 177 (wiped square).

In any case I need contact mr. Pajitnov to clean this question.

[Petr0vich13]

Oh, no.

Most DVK-2 software was writen in pure asm.

There was no pascal for dvk-2

[lautenaus]

If you had no Pascal on the computer it does not mean, that it at all was not. Read interview with Pajitnov where he says, that the Tetris has been written on Pascal.

[ElPayasoMalo]

Just curious, your native language is Russian, right? Also, do you have actual contact with Alexey Pajitnov? Anyway, thank you for uploading this.

[lautenaus]

No, I have not any contacts with Pajitnov...

[ElPayasoMalo]

That is unfortunate. He created one of the most loved and remembered computer games of all time and he didn't gain from it for many years because various companies stole it (basically). It would be interesting to hear his comments on the programming.

[jekader]

И что главное, с первой версии ничего принципиально нового в игре так и не поменялось за все эти годы!

Кстати, а как это дискета с игрой прожила столько лет? Я был об этом типе носителей более плохого мнения!

[lautenaus]

Не без проблем, но читается.