240: The Golden Age of Tetris

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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Leisure, Comedy, Video Games

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

We round out puzzle month with the ultimate "puzzle" game, so elemental that you can't imagine it not existing. Alexy Pajitnov and a crew of colleagues in the USSR birthed the game, and it followed a long and complicated trail to becoming a worldwide phenomenon.

This episode relates that story, talks about how Tetris has changed over the years, and looks at some recent excellent Tetris games.

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0:00.0	Hello, you'll excuse me for these fans going off in the background. It is a million degrees in Portland, Oregon.
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2:08.0	And this week we are talking about Tetris, which is a puzzle game developed by Alexi Pajetnov for the electronica 60 in 1984.
2:17.0	Yeah, if you haven't played with your electronica 60 in a while, this is a good excuse to dust it off.
2:22.0	Yeah, no, no, to pull that out of the closet. No, wait. a good
2:23.0	pull that out of the closet no wait it stays there because it's a big clunky
2:26.8	mission is it is a closet yes I am a closet yeah yeah and this is going to be a very different kind of episode because it is more of a survey of what Tetris has become after its initial version.
2:42.0	And we're going to do the rest of it in Esperanto. its initial version. Mm-hmm.
2:43.0	And we're going to do the rest of it in Esperanto.
2:45.0	What?
2:47.0	Mm-hmm.
2:48.0	Yeah, K.
2:51.0	I think you mean K.
2:52.0	Okay. I don't know if that's what that is in a front of.
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