The Tetris was – and remains – one of the most popular video games, in endless versions.

Designed by Russian video game designer Alexei Pazhitnov, who worked at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the brick game was first released on June 6, 1984, and was named after the Greek prefix “tetra”. , meaning four, and from tennis, Pazhitnov’s favorite sport.

Almost half a billion copies of Tetris have been sold worldwide, and the movie mentions (probably with some “scriptural freedom”) how it became a… spy game to eventually conquer popular culture in the West and East!

The protagonist of the film is the British actor Taron Egerton in the role of Tetris Company co-founder Hank Rogers who aims to bypass the KGB and turn Tetris into the global phenomenon we know today.. Directed by John S. Byrd. The movie “Tetris” will be released on Apple TV+ on March 31.