
Tetris and the Seed Potatoes of Leningrad
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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The History of Tetris
Tetris is the best selling video game of all time. Its story, the creator, who received no royalties until he became american and claimed his rightful intellectual property,. It's a story of emigration and capitalism and freedom of creative expression. But it is also, like any story, more complicated than that. One of pzinovs collaborators with whom he moved to the united states, eventually killed himself and his family after going broke.
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