Henk Rogers on telling the real story of Tetris: ‘I have to set the record straight’

Henk Rogers astatine the Tetris movie premiere astatine SXSW successful 2023. | Photo: Rick Kern / FilmMagic<br>

When Henk Rogers archetypal work the publication for the Tetris movie, helium was shocked. “There was truthful overmuch Hollywood successful the movie,” helium tells The Verge. “It conscionable drove maine nuts.” The movie mostly follows a pivotal play successful Rogers’ life, erstwhile helium traveled to the Soviet Union to navigate the analyzable rights issues for Tetris to bring it to platforms similar the Game Boy. There, helium connected with game’s creator Alexey Pajitnov, with whom helium yet formed a lifelong friendship, and turned Tetris into a planetary phenomenon.

The movie turned this acquisition into thing resembling a high-stakes spy thriller — and portion Rogers ended up loving the last product, that archetypal acquisition inspired him to archer the communicative of what truly happened. “While speechmaking the publication I said, ‘I person to acceptable the grounds straight,’” helium says.

That communicative present exists successful the signifier of the publication The Perfect Game. While Rogers primitively sat down to constitute astir the events that transpired successful the movie, helium soon realized the communicative was overmuch bigger than that. “I started penning it, and idiosyncratic looked astatine it and said, ‘That could beryllium a book, it’s conscionable not large enough,’” helium explains. “I didn’t privation to re &hellip;

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.