FOX On Games: Henk Rogers -  The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

FOX On Games: Henk Rogers - The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

Released Sunday, 6th April 2025
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FOX On Games: Henk Rogers -  The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

FOX On Games: Henk Rogers - The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

FOX On Games: Henk Rogers -  The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

FOX On Games: Henk Rogers - The Man Behind Tetris and His New Book

Sunday, 6th April 2025
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insider's cheap code to gaming. It's

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not often you get to speak

0:35

to an icon, and Hank Rogers

0:37

is just that. You might know

0:39

the name from the Tetris movie

0:41

that came out around last year,

0:43

because he's the man who brought

0:45

it over from Russia, to your

0:47

game boy at first, and then

0:49

everything else. So when I first

0:51

saw Tetris, I was actually a

0:53

developer and a publisher in Japan

0:55

of computer games. And I found

0:57

Tetris at the Consumer Electronics Show

0:59

in Las Vegas. So I brought it

1:02

to Japan first, and then Nintendo was

1:04

coming out with Game Boy. So I

1:06

said, wow, Tetris is the perfect game

1:08

for Game Boy. And nobody had those

1:10

rights. So I got on a plane,

1:12

went to the Soviet Union, and to

1:14

find whoever had the rights. And it

1:16

was a combination of a government ministry,

1:18

a look tronorg technica, and Alexei Pajnov,

1:20

the creator of the game. And now

1:23

he has a book to set the

1:25

record straight on everything he is doing

1:27

and has done running the Tetris Company.

1:29

The movie is Hollywood. It's a movie

1:31

movie movie. And so I decided that I

1:33

needed to set the record straight, not only

1:35

for my... my children and my grandchildren, but

1:38

for my friends and for my fans. So

1:40

I wrote the book of what actually happened

1:42

during that time of the movie, and then

1:44

I found out that, yeah, be a book,

1:47

but I need to make it a little

1:49

bit bigger. So I added the before and

1:51

after, so it's actually the story of my

1:53

game career. We asked him how he feels

1:56

about the success of the puzzle game and

1:58

how he feels that some players have officially

2:00

beaten the game that took the world

2:02

over some 30 odd years ago. That

2:05

whole crowd of young people, of kids,

2:07

whatever you want to call them. work

2:09

really hard to get to that kill

2:11

screen. Now, what's the kill screen? They

2:13

used AI to figure out that at

2:16

level, I think it's 157, if you

2:18

clear a single line, the program crashes.

2:20

Of course, it's not part of the

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game design, but the fact that they

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were able to discover this and then

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how he felt about Taran Egerton.

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He was just an exciting person

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to living a year and a

3:05

half of my life in a

3:08

space of two hours. So what

3:10

did he get wrong? He worked

3:13

cowboy boots. Taking on his name

3:15

in the film. The movie makes

3:17

me into somebody who's sneaking into

3:20

Nintendo to meet accidentally meet Yamauchi

3:22

in the hallways. That is not

3:24

how Nintendo works. Nobody gets sneaks

3:27

into Nintendo. Roger's is also a

3:29

giant environmentalist. When I had my near-death

3:31

experience in the form of 100% blockage

3:33

of the widow maker, which kills 95%

3:35

of the people that it happens to,

3:38

I in the ambulance said, no I'm

3:40

not going I still have stuff to

3:42

do. And when I was in the

3:44

recovery room in the newspaper it said,

3:46

oh by the way we're going to

3:49

kill all the coral in the world

3:51

by the end of the century. And

3:53

I said, no we're not. What's causing

3:55

that? It's ocean acidification which is caused

3:57

by carbon dioxide which is caused by us.

3:59

the blue planet to end the use

4:02

of carbon-based fuel. The perfect game,

4:04

Tetris, from Russia with love, is

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available now wherever you buy books.

4:08

Tetris the game, is available on

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almost anything you want to play

4:12

it on in hundreds of forms.

4:14

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