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Mini Podcast: The Story of Tetris

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Tetris has probably one of the most sordid tales about rights management. This so-called “first game from behind the iron curtain” was one of the most popular and addicting games of the late 1980s. Even more interesting is the story about how Nintendo snuck in behind a handful of eager parties who got in at the ground floor and secured sole console rights to one of the most money-producing games of all time.

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Written by Fred Rojas

January 18, 2015 at 8:15 pm

Posted in Gameboy, NES, podcast

Tagged with atari games, henk rogers, mirrorsoft, nintendo, pajitnov, robert stein, spectrum holobyte, tetris

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