Tetris

It is, perhaps, the perfect video game Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked Play it long enough and you ll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere You ll see them in your dreams.Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit Nintendo, Atari, Sega game developers big and small all wanted Tetris A bidding war was sparked, followed by clandestine trips to Moscow, backroom deals, innumerable miscommunications, and outright theft.In this graphic novel, New York Times bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and delves deep into the role games play in art, culture, and commerce For the first time and in unparalleled detail, Tetris The Games People Play tells the true story of the world s most popular video game. Read Tetris by Box Brown – kino-fada.fr The story of Tetris, its creators, and its complex journey into the West is told in a beautiful graphic novel from Box Brown We get to meet all the people involved in the creation and distribution of the legendary game that changed the world and launched the GameBoy, and we get a little history of gaming while we re at it.The art and color is beautiful It s similar to Daryn Cooke s Parker books one color shading the whole book, to great effect.You think you know the history of Tetris, but I p The story of Tetris, its creators, and its complex journey into the West is told in a beautiful graphic novel from Box Brown We get...We ve all played Tetris and enjoyed its blocky goodness until the pieces start coming down too quickly and that damn long piece won t appear and it s game over, man, GAME OVER Box Brown s Tetris The Games People Play tells its origin story and unfortunately it s not nearly as fun.For a book ostensibly about Tetris, it takes it s sweet time getting around to talking about it It s 70 pages before we meet Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian creator of Tetris Up til then there s a truncated histo We ve all played Tetris and enjoyed its blocky goodness until the pieces start coming down too quickly and that damn long piece won t appear and it s game over, man, GAME OVER Box Brown s Tetris The Games People Play tells its origin story and unfortunately it s not nearly as fun.For a book ostensibly about Tetris, it takes it s sweet time getting around to talking about it It s 70 pages before we meet Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian creator of Tetris Up til then there s a trunca...Full disclosure I am not a video gamer and read this because it was at my library in the new graphic novels section and because it had Box Brown s name on it I like his sweet attractive artwork and I liked his Andre the Giant quite a bit The history of psychology of games and gaming undergird this work, as the subtitle makes clear And then you learn how Tetris emerged out of this, and lots of controversies about it, which I don t care about in the least, but it seems thorough and will appe Full disclosure I am...Brown tells the fascinating and litigous tale of one of the most famous games in history He begins the book looking at the concept of games gaming over the millenia, tracing the earliest games and how they were created and played While this section of the book was very entertaining, I wish it had been a separate book entirely it was inserted into the story after the Tetris characters were already introduced and seemed out of place and extraneous MEMORIES amirite Like most people in my Brown tells the fascinating and litigous tale of one of the most famous games in history He begins the book looking at the concept of games gaming over the millenia, tracing the earliest games and how they were created and played While this section of the book was very entertaining, I wish it had been a separate book entirely it was inserted into the story after the Tetris characters were already introduced and seemed out of place and extraneous MEMORIES amirite Like most people in my ..., are my jam Tetris The Games People Play video games , Tetris fight me , 2 20 3 ,80s 90s video games, are my jam Tetris The Games People Play video games , Tetris fight me , 2 20 3 ,80s 90s video games, Tetris, 2 bidding war,Win win ,,, , .Tetris The Games People Play I m convinced there s a really interesting story in here, but I got really bogged down in who owned which rights to which versions of Tetris Alexey, who invented Tetris, seems like a great guy who was willing to give up financial reward to see this great thing he made flourish That s pretty inspiring He made this thing that was so good that it HAD to be shared with the world, even if it meant that he wouldn t get rich off it while other people did.But, as a book, there s just a lot of rights I m convinced there s a really interesting story in here, but I go...Missed opportunities The actual story of Tetris, how it was made, the rights struggle, and all that happened after is interesting and complicated enough on their own There was no real need to bring in an overview of Nintendo s playing card days, or an examination of cave paintings And it was missing the detail that was needed to make sense of a fairly complex rights issue But it s a really good story, and when Brown does concentrate on what s im...Oh my god, I had no idea this story was so nutsBox does it again an enthralling nonfiction work about another 1980s pop culture icon TETRIS Making a book brought back a lot of nostalgia for all of us here at 01 and Box it is always a pleasure working with BoxI spent a lot maybe too much of my childhood hunched in front of the TV, madly spinning Tetris blocks on my Nintendo I was obsessed, my brothers were obsessed, and my mom was the most obsessed Box Brown s latest pop culture history comic, Tetris The Games People Play, proves that we weren t the only ones What we didn t know was that this simple and addictive video game had a wild and controversial evolution.Conceived by a Russian scientist and mathematician as a time wasting puzzle g I spent a lot maybe too much of my childhood hunched in front of the TV, madly spinning Tetris blocks on my Nintendo I was obsessed, my brothers were obsessed, and my mom was the most obsessed Box Brown s latest pop culture history comic, Tetris The Games People Play, proves that we weren t the only ones What we didn t know was that this simple and addictive video game had a wild and controversial evolution.Conceived by a Russian scientist and mathematician as a time wasting puzzle game, a hobby really, Tetris became a hugely profitable worldwide phenomenon...

• English
• 16 January 2017
Box Brown
• Paperback
• 253 pages
• 162672315X
• Box Brown
• Tetris