The True Story That Tetris Doesn't Tell You

Rivals raced against time to gain rights to Tetris in the 2023 film, but not everything in the film was fact. Car chases, licensing lawsuits, and KGB’s involvement – it all sounds dramatized, but was it really? Here’s the fact from fiction to how the blocks really fell.

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The origin | 0:00
Arriving in the West | 1:28
Discovering Tetris | 2:20
Henk's translator | 3:22
Game Boy | 4:26
Why Rogers went to Moscow | 5:32
Helping the Russians | 6:36
Rivals | 7:40
Shigeru Miyamoto | 8:54
Lawsuits from Atari | 9:42
There were no dramatic chases | 10:43
The final score | 11:39

Voiceover by: Tim Bensch

[Looper]

What do you think of the story behind Tetris?

[everx]

Its simplified but the gist is there and its entertaining and satisfying in the end.
Now we know everything :).

[LoJo]

10:30 - According to the BBC documentary, Beliikov did not have to actually testify. (It's around the 49-minute mark.)

[gunengineering]

"Do you need a translator, sir?"
"No. But i DO need a KGB agent to help me find ELORG." 😁

[thenerdyarab]

Just watch the Gaming Historian version

[leonardo]

I keep my 10 year old Nokia exclusively to play Tetris. The current version that you get at Google Play SUCKS!

[nolansub]

My favourite scene was The Final Countdown 😀

[wiggledytoes]

Isnt it more likely these people, bar Japan, wanted the rights to tetris not for profit but a backdoor

[r_broadcast]

Well @GamingHistorian, You are part of this.