Originally published at: After watching this trailer for Tetris, I'm excited to watch the movie | Boing Boing
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I’m not gonna get on any new streaming services, and I’ve never liked the game, but that is a goddamn amazing trailer.
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Good to see they’re doing the smart thing and making a movie about the development of Tetris, rather than trying to come up with some random plot to exploit the IP. See Battleship for an example of how not to do it.
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Or the CollegeHumor parody that sticks way too close to Minesweeper.
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Oh.
Was fully expecting a Hollywood animated version where geometric shapes are anthropomorphized with faces and personalities and everything.
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Aye, the story’s been told. It’s not that exciting, really.
Or at least, most of it isn’t. But the exciting parts have been told too.
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For folks wanting a more documentary approach to the history of Tetris, The Gaming Historian released a great 1hr video.
Update: Thanks @ghostbloke for pointing out the bad auto-complete.
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Gaming Historian does good work (loved the one on the creation of the ESRB), but autocomplete has it out for you.
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I had a Tetris manga from the mid-90s, I hope it renews interest in a potential anime adaptation
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Beat me to it!
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Tetris caused the West to lose more productive man hours than any virus or sabotage by the USSR could have achieved.
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After causing the Soviet scientific community to lose more productive man hours than any virus or sabotage by the West could have achieved.
Pajitnov had completed the first playable version of Tetris by June 6, 1984.[21] Pajitnov presented Tetris to his colleagues, who quickly became addicted to it.[15]: 87 It permeated the offices within the Academy of Sciences, and within a few weeks it reached every Moscow institute with a computer.[15]: 87 [22]: 9 min A friend of Pajitnov, Vladimir Pokhilko, who requested the game for the Moscow Medical Institute, saw people stop working to play Tetris . Pokhilko eventually banned the game from the Medical Institute to restore productivity.[15]: 87
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I was not expecting that. What a great trailer. Combining truth with exaggeration, turning the whole story into a 1980’s spy thriller, complete with great period music. Sweet.
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looking forward to this. he’s not lying when he says he saw blocks falling in his sleep and when he just closed his eyes. when it came out when i was in college, i sure did. and i had a friend who lost an entire semester to tetris. that game was indeed perfect and perfectly addictive. i have a version of it on my iphone right now, in fact.
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When I saw Tetris movie, I thought of Battleship. 
But I don’t see any aliens, probably.
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Eh, if I’m honest I was probably going to waste that time anyway.
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Why on earth would one use The Final Countdown instead of the actual Tetris music for this trailer. And I say this as one who saw Europe in concert (in '89).
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The teaser switches back and forth with “Korobeiniki”. Listen for it at 1:26 - 1:40, 1:51 - 2:06.
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