The Perfect Escape

       I went to the Tetris website and it is actually really cool!  I have always loved Tetris, I play it on my phone all the time.  It is kind of funny, my dad was actually addicted to it...i'm not kidding......ok perhaps I am exagerating.  He used to steal my "Gameboy" when I was younger and play Tetris for hours.  It made me so  furious!

       Tetris was born in Moscow!  In 1984 the first edition was created in Moscow by a man of the name of Alexey Pajitnov.  It was then ported to IBM and spread all over Soviet Union.  Tetris started to appear on IBMS in North America and Europe in 1987.  A mere year later, Henk Rogers discovered Tetris in Las Vegas at a Consumer Electronic Show.  Rogers had his own publishing company called Bullet Proof Software where he published his first Nintendo game.

   Rogers went to Moscow to get the rights to Tetris, and when he received the rights he sold it over to Nintendo.  Pajitnov and Rogers became friends.  In 1989 over 35 million copies were sold.  In 1996, Rogers gave the rights back to Pajitnov.   He moved to Hawaii where he established Blue Planet Software.  Hawaii does not sound too shabby.  When the rights were back to Pajitnov, he got Roger Dean to create a fresh look for the game.
 
      In 2000, Tetris became the most popular mobile game in Japan. After the success in Japan, Rogers founded Blue Lava Wireless to see how the game would work on cell phones in North America.  Two years later Jamdat bought Blue Lava Wireless and a 15 year license to buy Tetris through mobile devices.  In 2006, EA bought Jamdat and launched Tetris to iphones making it the number one game downloaded.
      
       I think movie studios started to realease video games because when someone sees a movie, the viewer escapes and can practically envision themselves on the screen.  Just imagine, in a video game you are in control and you become the character.  Movie studios are absolute genuises and make a killing from these games.  Video games like Harry Potter, James Bond, Saving Private Ryan and Batman are all extremely popular.  The gamer can be the hero, that he or she usually views on the screen.  Video games are the perfect escape.
     
       The future of video games is questionable, because of technology advancing into smaller and more accessible means.  Iphone games are hugely popular, as well as computer games.  According to market research firm NPD Group video games were down eight percent from a year ago.  Who knows what will happen next.