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  • It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  • It's poetry, art and math all working in magical synchronicities.

  • It's the perfect game, Tetris, Tetris, Tetris, Tetris, Tetris.

  • I am Alexi people know me as a creative of the computer game Tetris, I was really, really interested all kinds of mathematical puzzles.

  • Read by day, he worked as a programmer for the government of the Soviet Computer Science Center.

  • By night, he invented games for fun, very famous puzzle board called Mina.

  • They are at 12 different shape made out of five squares.

  • And when I start to program this two player game, I decided that it would be much more fun to make a real time game out of it close, but we need something more.

  • Tetris is the story of how uh the rights to the video game Tetris came to be in the possession of Nintendo and it's really almost a spy thriller.

  • Only 10 other people in the world have seen what you're about to see.

  • It's called the Game Boy package of A Tetris that was brand new industry and brand new stuff.

  • For me.

  • It was a symbol of future.

  • The Soviet Union had worldwide rights.

  • Nothing gets out easily.

  • We have barely idea about intellectual property.

  • None of even software industry market didn't exist.

  • Alexi and a couple of buddies from work made the game IBM compatible, which meant color graphics, eight bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free.

  • It spread like wildfire.

  • Basically.

  • At this time, Tetris was like a small point of future growing up through the layers of bureaucracy of, of the greed.

  • Mr Hodges, have you ever negotiated with the Soviets?

  • We're here for Tetris.

  • We've seized this.

  • What do you say?

  • I don't speak Russian.

  • Really use the atmosphere of the time.

  • I'm gonna make you a millionaire.

  • I do not have right to receive money from my game.

  • That's criminal.

  • No, it is.

  • The challenge for us was to make places like London look like Soviet era Russia, thousands of reference images, everything from propaganda posters to vehicles to wardrobe.

  • In my opinion, it feels so authentic.

  • It almost like we had a time machine to go back and shoot it because it, it, it feels that that close to home.

  • I think, you know, the word good ideas have no borders.

  • The atmosphere of the movie was very truthful.

  • That was a very dark time when the Soviet Union is going to collapse.

  • The world is changing and the Soviet Union will not be left behind.

  • But it also was a very helpful time.

  • You could feel the spirit of the hope in the movie, the Cavalry is coming.

  • We don't have time.

  • I have a plan.

It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

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