{"id":661,"date":"2009-06-06T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=661"},"modified":"2009-06-07T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:54:27","slug":"happy-birthday-tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/06\/06\/happy-birthday-tetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Tetris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years young today!<em> <\/em>Alexey Pajitnov released <em>Tetris<\/em> on June 6, 1984.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-662\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"Tetris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tetris_005.gif\" alt=\"Tetris\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DOS version of Tetris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-663\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-663\" title=\"Electronika 60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/electronika-60.jpg\" alt=\"Electronika 60\" width=\"400\" height=\"159\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original platform for Tetris, the Elektronika 60.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Originally launched in the Soviet Union, the history of <em>Tetris<\/em> intersects with the cold war, of course.<\/p>\n<p>In the history of video games, <em>Tetris<\/em> is sometimes claimed to be the first casual game (subject to discussion).<\/p>\n<p>There are now so many versions of <em>Tetris<\/em> that it feels like a <em>folk<\/em> game in the public domain &#8211; it&#8217;s a kind of hello world of games. Yet, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetris.com\/\">Tetris company<\/a> is also trying to assert a legal right to the game, threatening some people who implement it. It is one of the those things &#8211; <em>Tetris<\/em> feels universal, like chess or crossword puzzles, that it is counter-intuitive that someone could own or control it. I wish there was a clear solution to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years young today! Alexey Pajitnov released Tetris on June 6, 1984. Originally launched in the Soviet Union, the history of Tetris intersects with the cold war, of course. In the history of video games, Tetris is sometimes claimed to be the first casual game (subject to discussion). There are now so many versions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/06\/06\/happy-birthday-tetris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Tetris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}