It’s hard to believe now, but Tetris had everything going against it when it was first created. Dreamed up in a country weighed down with bureaucracy and largely walled off from the outside world, Tetris shouldn’t have become the worldwide phenomenon it became. A new book goes into painstaking detail about how the classic game infected the world.
Source: Gizmodo – Come Ask Writer Dan Ackerman About His Book That Shows How Tetris’ Pieces Fell Into Place