Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
the Tetris rights saga
Written on a Soviet computer with no graphics in 1984, then a mess of Western companies selling rights they didn't have. The Game Boy deal happened in Moscow with everyone in different hotels.
6 sources · 41 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “tetris rights history”
- Ended at
- Elektronorgtechnica
The Trail
- “tetris rights history” (google.com)
- Tetris (en.wikipedia.org)
- Alexey Pajitnov (en.wikipedia.org)
- Elektronika 60 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Henk Rogers (en.wikipedia.org)
- Elektronorgtechnica (en.wikipedia.org)
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