Tetris (film)
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Tetris is a 2023 film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. The film stars Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software, who becomes interested in the game Tetris, created by Alexey Pajitnov, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo, he takes trips between Japan, the United States, and Russia to win legal battles over the game's ownership.
- Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink.
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- Henk Rogers: It all began with a guy named Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, four years ago. By day, he worked as a programmer for the government at the Soviet Computer Science Center. [thunder rumbles] But by night, he invented games for fun. [electronic whirring] [video game beeps] [gasps] His computer, a Stone Age, Soviet piece of crap called an Electronika 60, didn't even have a graphics card. His falling blocks were parentheses pushed together. [video game beeping] [typing] Alexey and a couple of buddies from work made the game IBM-compatible. [cheering] Which meant color graphics, 8-bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free. It spread like wildfire. [video game beeps] But this is the Soviet Union, remember? Nothing gets out easily. It would take an entrepreneur to actually go there and monetize it.
- Henk Rogers: Is now the time for American emotion?
- Alexey Pajitnov: Good ideas have no borders.
- Alexey Pajitnov: Mr. Rogers, I don't have right to receive money from my game.
- Henk Rogers: Well, that's crime.
- Alexey Pajitnov: No. This is communism.
- Henk Rogers: I played Tetris for five minutes. I still see falling blocks in my dreams.
- Henk Rogers: Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate...
- Alexey Pajitnov: ...the power of BASIC.
- Henk Rogers: Because you know as well as I do, partners are what make us great. That's why Mario has Luigi. That's why Zelda has Link. That's why Mike Tyson has whoever he's punching out in Punch-Out!
- Henk Rogers: Pioneers have to bet the house to win.
- Henk Rogers: How did you know where to find us?
- Alexey Pajitnov: It was easy. I thought "What would I never do?"
- Henk Rogers: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Eddie. Nintendo is letting me become a publisher. Nintendo. It's a license to print money.
- Kevin Maxwell: The Soviet Union is about to implode. Everyone's snatching up what they can, and Gorbachev can't do a thing about it!
- Henk Rogers: Gentlemen, if you want to sell a couple hundred thousand Game Boys to little kids, package them with Mario. But if you want to sell millions of Game Boys to absolutely everyone, young and old, around the world... package them with Tetris.
