A History of Tetris
A History of Tetris |
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| Tetris was first developed to play on an Electronika 60 at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After it was ported to the IBM PC, its popularity grew and began to spread beyond Moscow. As its popularity grew, so did the legal battles around who had the rights to market Tetris. As a result, many competing parties laid claim to the Tetris rights. The air cleared significantly in 1989 when Atari was granted the rights to use Tetris in arcade machines. Nintendo was granted rights to use Tetris in gaming consoles. They were both competing with a company called Andromeda which had the copyright for the IBM PC and any other home computer system. Nintendo release version of Tetris on its Gameboy is considered the best well known version of the game, selling over 33 million copies. In spite of the big sales, Pazitnov had earned very little hard dollars from the game. But in 1996 the Tetris Company was formed to try a get revenue from Tetris. Through the Tetris Holding company, the Tetris Company holds the licensing rights in virtually every country of the world but it has licensed it intellectual property to other companies as well. But the legal rights have not stopped the knock offs from appearing. At this time, the game player has an almost unlimited supply of official and unofficial Tetris games and variations. |
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