The Tetris Story: A Conversation with Henk Rogers
Gamertag Radio
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4.2 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:02.8 | This is Gamer Tag Radio. |
| 0:06.1 | All right back here, GamerTag Radio, and we have here The Legend, the legend. |
| 0:10.9 | Hank Rogers, Hank, man, welcome to the show. |
| 0:13.3 | I know we had you before you guys were promoting the movie, but now this time you're promoting |
| 0:18.1 | your new book, The Perfect Game, Tetris from Russia with |
| 0:23.0 | Love. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to the show, Hank. |
| 0:25.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:27.2 | Awesome, awesome. |
| 0:27.9 | So tell us a little bit about this new book that's coming out very soon. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, you know, before the movie came out, I was working with Alexi on the script. |
| 0:37.9 | They let us mess around with the stuff that happened in Moscow, |
| 0:41.5 | meaning that they wanted us to get the Soviet Union right, the feeling of it, |
| 0:46.5 | which we did and which they did. |
| 0:49.4 | But they wouldn't let us touch any of the Hollywood, you know, |
| 0:53.0 | how can I say, stuff that never happened. |
| 0:55.9 | So when I, when I looked at the script, oh my God, this is such a, I don't know, it's so not |
| 1:03.2 | what actually happened. There was no car chase. Come on. You know, it's like, that's all Hollywood. |
| 1:08.3 | And so I wanted to set the record straight. so I wrote that whole part with a movie during the movie time. |
| 1:17.1 | And somebody looked at that and said, you know what? |
| 1:20.1 | It kind of looks like a book, except that it's too short. |
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