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these are the top five things you didn't know about Tetris we talked to skin nets at Dan Ackerman to find out all kinds of checkers things because he literally wrote the book on Tetris it's called the tetris effect go biased anyway let's get to the five at number five it's a work of art the original black and white version of Tetris is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art number four you can play Tetris on pretty much anything Tetris is on more than 65 platforms it holds the Guinness world record for the most ported game ever there's even a version that runs on certain Hewlett Packard oscilloscopes but it's an easter egg and number three there's a 3d version of Tetris this 3d game wasn't designed with some knockoff artists tetris is creator built a 3d version of Tetris called welt wrist well trous is a top-down version of the game at number two Z shaped pieces are awful if you received only Z shaped pieces you would lose after 120 pieces no matter what at number one how Tetris was packed in with the Gameboy now this one's insane the year was 1989 the Soviet government held the rights of the tetris game because the Soviet government owned the rights to everything out of the USSR Nintendo hired Hank Rogers a game developer who ran bulletproof to make a deal Rogers travelled to Russia to talk to elorg a Soviet agency ile org was actually in talks with three separate parties at the same time about console and handheld rights to Tetris Rogers showed off a Famicom version of Tetris and elorg freaked out thinking it was an illegal version so Rogers paid them a royalty check a forty thousand dollars on the spot that got Hank Rogers and intent of the handheld rights for the new Gameboy but for the rights for living room consoles like the NES that was the big prize due to a pre-existing relationship elorg offered a right of first refusal to another party but that party missed the deadline then he Lord did a deal with Nintendo directly five million dollars later and Nintendo had the rights bulletproof with the developer Nintendo with the publisher via the Tetris story is fascinating get Dan's book the Tetris effect available in dead tree and electronic book formats I'm Aya's after I'll see you online damn you're still here