The story of Tetris the game is one of rule breaking, of multiple double-crossings and, in the movie version at least, of danger and intrigue
, you’re completely right: director Jon S. Baird’s jaunty, entertaining picture traces the roots of the game to its beginnings in Soviet Moscow in 1984, the brainchild of computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov—played in the film by Nikita Efremov—who would invent little games as a way of testing the capabilities of new equipment at work.
Not so fast. As it turns out, Rogers will have to slice through a clump of tangled ribbons of red tape, involving Mirrorsoft’s owner, the not-yet-disgraced British media mogul Robert Maxwell and his almost equally odious son , a wheeler-dealer businessman named Robert Stein , and the Cold War-era Soviet government, represented by an individual named Nikolai Belikov , the director of a government-owned company controlling the trade of computer hardware and software.
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