Porkies have to spent billions of dollar in researching psychology to create an insane emotion manipulation system in their games to even reach the level of addiction Tetris reached decades ago. Something Tetris achieved by pure good gameplay.
Imagine if the USSR still exist today (:ussr-cry:), we would've seen a game so good we would just straight up fucking dies.
edit: Considering that games from post-eastern bloc countries continues to blow away western and Japanese in the terms of creativity means that this isn't really a joke. :lt-dbyf-dubois: made in the Estonian SSR would send you writhing on the floor speaking in tongues.
I remember playing the original Tetris in black and white on a Mac in 1989.
It was obvious the game was a winner, but what I remember the most about that version was the art and music. There were these backgrounds of the Soviet space program and such, and traditional Russian folk music. Not that stupid "Tetris theme" that most people associate with the arcade version and Gameboy version. No, real music.
The “Type A” theme from the Game Boy that everyone associates with Tetris is a folk song though.
https://youtu.be/umEDct4BoGc
Which version was that? The original original Tetris looked like this
Definitely Spectrum Holobyte Macintosh version
First version available in America.
This version