“Sexy” is probably not a word most people would immediately reach for when describing the videogame Tetris, and yet the first trailer for the new Tetris film coming to Apple TV makes it look
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“Sexy” is probably not a word most people would immediately reach for when describing the videogame Tetris, and yet the first trailer for the new Tetris film coming to Apple TV makes it look downright hot.
It’s hard to overstate the impact of Tetris. Developed by engineer Alexey Pajitnov, it was originally released in the Soviet Union in 1984 and made its way to the West a few years later. That was a big deal in itself: At that point in history the USSR was still largely closed to the Western world. But once it went wide, it was a massive hit on just about every platform you can name, and it remains one of the best selling videogames of all time.
But it was also very staid. Colorful tetrominoes (that’s what the little Tetris blocks are called) drop from the top of the screen, you arrange them into complete lines, the lines disappear, continue ad infinitum.
