Tetris movie9/19/2023 ![]() Not only in terms of how we make them but also why we love playing them in the first place. Tetris is not only a very good and surprisingly fun video game movie, but it’s finally shown why we care so much about video games. That alone makes this movie very special, because it gives context as to what everyone was fighting for and also humanises the profession of game development in a very real way. The elation of two wondrous beardie weirdies collaborating on a game is probably the closest I’ve seen a movie get to capturing what it is like to make a game. Rogers then asks why the game only allows you to delete one line at a time, to which Pajitnov cracks open the back end and starts to make changes. The legal battle is definitely sexed up somewhat though, with higher stakes and even a car chase, but it works because unlike other Hollywood movies about video games, it doesn’t shy away from gaming and its innate appeal.Ī great example of this is with one scene later on in the movie where Pajitnov shows Rogers the original Tetris game he coded (shown above). ![]() It’s this kind of cultural context that gives weight to what could have been a bland movie about a legal battle over a video game’s rights. From the fall of the Soviet Union, to the collapse of Maxwell’s empire and the rise of Nintendo’s industry defining handheld, the Game Boy. What’s interesting about all this is that it places the game of Tetris in amongst world events at the end of the 80s. 'Tetris' manages to capture the genuine joy of making games.
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