Tetris - From Russia with Love 1/6

This 2004 BBC documentary gives an extensive insight into how one of the greatest classic games came to be and the thrilling battle that was held over publishing it to the west.

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[the0th]

americans only made games about destruction. soviet russia made games about construction

[GameDocumentaries]

@the0th that makes simcity, utopia, or caesar russian games...at least according to your flawed generalization. i could also say that stacking up unrelated geometrical blocks has nothing to do with construction. in fact, tetris is about destruction. if you try to build the tower of babel then you won't live past level 0. you have to destroy what you have created to make it to the end.

il2 sturmovik, death to spies and blitzkrieg are russian games also. where's the construction in those games?

[kozmon0t]

@GameDocumentaries il-2, smert spionam and blitzkrieg are Russian, not Soviet.

[GameDocumentaries]

@kozmon0t touché

[HeroicDomoKun]

Since Tetris is a builder game, you could say that present builder games like the Sims are modern versions of Tetris.

[GameDocumentaries]

interesting idea, but the sims are a simulation game ;) building is only part of the overall gameplay while tetris solely relies on it.

let's go even further :P tetris is not a game about building, but destroying. if you build too high, you lose, while sim-games are the exact opposite. so by that logic, tetris is more comparable to rampage than anything else. ;)

[drrrerr]

dude has some blue eyes

[lucirz]

tetris is an amazing game

[0912georgiy]

Why do you show Russia, though there are living only grandmother and mustached men?

[TheLiamclink]

When she said: they called it tetris : for some reason I smiled. I like this game waaaay to much

[lenejaV]

I remember kicking my dad's ass in TETRIS when I was like 8yo! Lol!:D

[kozmon0t]

I'm pretty sure they wrote the game on a mainframe or an IBM compat, not on an Elektronika. They wouldn't have been messing around with Elektronikas in 1985.

I have the Elektronika version. It's not very good.

[KimCheeWarrior]

damnit, i wish there were more videogame documentaries produced like this. this one was made so well that any other one ill watch from now on will pale in comparison.

[22bitstudios]

I LOVE TETRIS!!!