56 min
The Crazy Story of Tetris: From USSR blocks to USA Stardom The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
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- True Crime
In this episode of the Compendium, buckle up for a wild ride with Tetris, the game that escaped the Iron Curtain and won the world! It’s Adam in the driver's seat for this one and it’s a block-dropping bonanza that takes us to Soviet Russia where it all began, to its global domination driven by the USA, up you read that correctly, an unlikely partnership between two opposing sides. It's a story filled with undercover deals, Cold War intrigue, and yes, those addictively annoying blocks.We give...
In this episode of the Compendium, buckle up for a wild ride with Tetris, the game that escaped the Iron Curtain and won the world! It’s Adam in the driver's seat for this one and it’s a block-dropping bonanza that takes us to Soviet Russia where it all began, to its global domination driven by the USA, up you read that correctly, an unlikely partnership between two opposing sides. It's a story filled with undercover deals, Cold War intrigue, and yes, those addictively annoying blocks.We give...
56 min