It’s this really simple game that kind of took over the world. The other thing that was compelling that they used to sell the game when we were kids was that it escaped from behind the Red Curtain. It was this black cartridge unlike the gray cartridges for every other Nintendo game. I remember hearing rumors that one was illegal or the not real version. As a kid, I remember that there was two versions of Tetris for Nintendo, and two separate cartridges. I saw a BBC documentary about the making of Tetris. It can be as small or as big as you can imagine and it doesn’t really change much. It’s not even about having good graphics. Maybe you don’t identify with the character or something about the story rubs you the wrong way. Story can be alienating to different people. Video games are huge right now, but Tetris is that rare game that everybody knows and everybody has played. I played just as much as anyone else–a lot. I played Tetris incessantly but I think that’s average. Tetris became such a global success because it taps into the brain, and over the course of his graphic novel, Brown explores what that means and what it says about us.īox Brown: Most definitely. It's a complicated story, one that's both entwined with the history of Nintendo and a meditation of what games are and why they’re important to us.
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“Tetris” is a recounting of the story behind the popular, addictive video game. His label's latest book, which debuted at New York Comic Con and is on sale now, is also his latest graphic novel project. Not only is Box Brown the award winning cartoonist behind books like “Andre the Giant,” about the wrestling legend, the webcomic “Bellen!” and the Xeric Award winning “Love Is a Peculiar Type of Thing,” he’s also the publisher of the beloved Retrofit Comics which has recently released work by Leela Corman, Eleanor Davis and MariNaomi.