{"id":8355,"date":"2014-01-29T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:16:05","slug":"tetris-sneaks-into-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris Sneaks Into the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-627\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<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\/2014\/01\/ffcab__Tetris_DOS_1986-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/>January 29, 1988<\/p>\n<p>The computer game <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTetris\" target=\"_blank\">Tetris<\/a> makes its <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1988%2F01%2F29%2Fbusiness%2Fnew-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:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpectrum_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:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atarihq.com%2Ftsr%2Fspecial%2Ftetrishist.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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F01%2F29%2Fphobos-ii-orbits-mars%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Phobos II Orbits Mars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ffcab__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/29\/tetris-sneaks-into-the-us\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/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":2,"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-8355","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\/8355"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}