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Article #75347Re: Another Look and Feel?
From: Timo Lehtinen
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 23:35
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 23:35
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In article <3145@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>I just heard of another law suit that sounds like L&F that really bugs me.
>We've all heard of Tetris right? Yesterday I saw a new version of Tetris
>for the Nintendo.
> .
> .
>However, the people at Blockbuster Video said that they couldn't rent that
>game anymore (even though it was on display?!?), because Nintendo had sued
>Tengen and won.
> .
> .
>I don't condone code copying but improving on something promotes
>competition, right? Anybody know if Nintendo really was the original
>designer of this game?
The original designer of Tetris is Alexey Pazhitnov and it was originally
programmed by Vadim Gerasimov, both from the Moscow academy of mathematics.
I've yet to see an implementation that tops their original one. They have
also designed Welltris, which is sort of a 3D Tetris.
ttl
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,8dc32c5454afa2d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-14 12:08:27 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!tut!funic!fuug!sti!ttl From: ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Another Look and Feel? Message-ID: <1990Aug13.233536.4326@sti.fi> Date: 13 Aug 90 23:35:36 GMT References: <3145@awdprime.UUCP> Reply-To: ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) Organization: Stream Technologies Inc. Lines: 29 Posted: Tue Aug 14 00:35:36 1990