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Tetris creator Aleksey and few of his company were bought out and borught to Seattle in early oughts by Microsoft and they made a bunch of games for MSN Zone. T
by danielodievich 4y ago
Tetris creator Aleksey and few of his company were bought out and borught to Seattle in early oughts by Microsoft and they made a bunch of games for MSN Zone. There was one called Hexic that I remember him posting into a Russian email alias with an offer to take whoever got 5 black pearls first to dinner with him, which I think took out od a good portion of Russians on that channel out of circulation for a day or two (I got up to 3 of those pearls but could not make it past that).
I had dinner with him at his house later via connections through my incredibly sociable and connected mother, he was a delight, very, very clever, and had lots of physical puzzles that he invented and made himself. I am glad he made money off it eventually.
- kemitchell 4y agoThank you for sharing this story!
- soco 4y agoI played in the (end of) 90s a funny asdf Russian PC game with frogs you should jump from ever-shrinking lotus leaves... anybody know what it was, and even better, find it again for a run down the memory lane?
- dmitry-vsl 4y agoThis one? https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika
- soco 4y agoYESSS thank you! But... Perestroika frogs??? Anyway I think I played the Toppler version (no Gorby I remember) and it was really fun. I'll start digging for it right now...
- NovaVeles 4y agoOnly question I would ask him is what he though of the love letter than is the 2018 game Tetris Effect?
- ace2358 4y agoI love Tetris and DJing. It’s like two of my favourite things combined!
- Daltzn 4y agoHexic on my Zune HD consumed an incredible amount of my time. Still no modern day equivalent in how smooth the gameplay was. I still boot up the Zune sometimes to enjoy it again.