Tetris: The Games People Play
First Second
Dec 19, 2016
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Writer and artist Box Brown’s treatise on Tetris is a real treat. According to Tetris: The Games People Play, Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris’ creator, “believed that games were the perfect confluence of humanity and technology. Games model the human experience. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.”
Tetris not only shares Pajitnov’s story and worldview in relaying the origin of the game and its rise to near-ubiquity in the ‘90s, it also plumbs the depths and breadth of the concepts and philosophy behind gaming itself. It also chronicles, as a necessary consequence of explaining the Tetris phenomenon, the backstory of a little company called Nintendo and several of the other players that had a hand in Tetris’ world takeover.
Throughout all of this—business machinations, Russian politics, software piracy, the roots of mobile gaming, and more—Brown’s clear storytelling and deceptively simple and expressive cartooning serve to enrapture, but never bog down, a reader. Fantastic book. (www.firstsecondbooks.com)
Author rating: 8.5/10
Average reader rating: 9/10
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