Manager of the ever relevant Tetris Company has his say on "Angry Birds".

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disolitude said:

masschamber said:

disolitude said:
If he invented Tetris, I'd agree with him. Tetris rapes Angry Birds sideways in fun factor, replay value and everything else...

However some guy in Russia invented Tetris and this goof is just blowing hot air.

Alexey Pajitnov actually resides in the US these days, his pal that helped him went crazy and murdered his family with a hammer

and to be fair Henk Rogers was directly involved with introducing Tetris to the world he actually infiltrated Moscow to license tetris and was directly involved with getting nintendo to license tetris

Well thank you for the education on this matter... Do I dare to ask how you know all this? Especially about the murder of the guy's family??  o.O

wrote an essay for an economics class on the effects of the soviet union's economic policies on arts and entertainment during the cold war era.  Was a newspaper article from the city he lived in at the time of the murders titled something like Tetris inventor murders family, obviously I had to know more.   Most everything else was from various economic journals and such

oh yeah, on a whole tetris is a facinating affair in international policy, copyright law, and just about everything,

to read up on the incredible history here is a great place to start

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A938874