{"id":14450,"date":"2018-01-29T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-3\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:17:18","slug":"tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Sneaks Into the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-628\" title=\"Tetris DOS\" alt=\"Tetris DOS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/833bd__Tetris_DOS_1986-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/833bd__Tetris_DOS_1986-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Tetris_DOS_1986.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>January 29, 1988<\/p>\n<p>The computer game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tetris\" target=\"_blank\">Tetris<\/a> makes its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/01\/29\/business\/new-software-game-it-comes-from-soviet.html\" target=\"_blank\">first appearance in the United States as a PC game<\/a>. The company that released the game was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectrum_HoloByte\" target=\"_blank\">Spectrum Holobyte<\/a>, which had dubious licensing rights to the game. When companies became interested in licensing Tetris for other platforms besides the PC, a series of events kicked off\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarihq.com\/tsr\/special\/tetrishist.html\" target=\"_blank\">a long legal battle<\/a>, in which the big winner was eventually Nintendo, who used the game Tetris to drive sales of its new Game Boy platform.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/29\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us\/\">Tetris Sneaks Into the US<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/29\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 1988 The computer game Tetris makes its first appearance in the United States as a PC game. The company that released the game was Spectrum Holobyte, which had dubious licensing rights to the game. When companies became interested in licensing Tetris for other platforms besides the PC, a series of events kicked off\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[248,3111,3110],"class_list":["post-14450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-into","tag-sneaks","tag-tetris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}