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Box Brown 's Tetris is the story of the popular puzzle game created in Russia by Alexey Pajitnov. Overall, an interesting read, although the story is m
Box Brown 's Tetris is the story of the popular puzzle game created in Russia by Alexey Pajitnov. Overall, an interesting read, although the story is mostly about economic interests and copyright protection. Read only if you know little about Tetris, yet love it. I liked very much the depiction of Alexey as the unaware, good-natured computer programmer working with some of the brightest minds in Russia at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Moscow. I also enjoyed how the expressed views of Alexey about the role games play in everyone's daily lives are given shape in these pages. The depiction of the obtuse Russian apparatus and its rapacious individuals, which played an influential role in how Tetris became available to the world, is also good. The facts depicted in the book are by and large common knowledge, but occasionally something new emerges, and overall the story seems accurate. I also disliked some parts of the story. I did not enjoy that the story is less about the creator or the creation, and more, much more, about the economics (and copyright related legalese) of publishing the game in the US, the UK, anf Japan; the book could have been called "50 Shades of Legal: Classic Legal Adventures When Publishing A Game from Behind the Iron Curtain". There are also storyline issues, because the first 50-so pages form an odd link with the story. Much as I enjoy the history of gaming, I doubt very much that Alexey was thinking about the philosophy of games and the history of play, or that he assumed anything at global human scale, when creating Tetris. (I also doubt that the interpretation given by the author to the various historical events is the only possible interpretation.) The graphical rendition of the story helps with making it attractive. Without the graphics, I am not sure I would have bothered to read about the baroque economic and legal affairs surrounding the game. In fact, when choosing whether to read Tetris, the graphical novel, and Tetris, the prose-only book, I chose this.
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