From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15221 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, December 16 2024 Volume 14 : Number 15221 Today's Subjects: ----------------- A Sip of Nicoya Bliss ["Nicoya PuraTea" Subject: A Sip of Nicoya Bliss A Sip of Nicoya Bliss http://generatorpower.ru.com/7OoNBHXOEYOEMKnKulxUoy-41fkcz5P3w1Kiw91lY7YIBIzqvw http://generatorpower.ru.com/bRwi6jqP0iRzyITU1SrLGLt_ykaZhKJl3E27b2CXSwmrB_jN-g me published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris, a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems. Tetris received positive reviews overall, winning multiple Excellence in Software Awards, and would eventually sell over one million copies. Development Alexey Pajitnov (pictured in 2024) was the creator of Tetris. Tetris was created by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. Pajitnov wanted to export Tetris, but had no knowledge of the business world. His superiors in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union were not necessarily happy with the success of the game, since they had not intended such a creation from the research team.:?87? Furthermore, copyright law of the Soviet Union created a state monopoly on import and export of copyrighted works, and the Soviet researchers were not allowed to sell their creations.:?301?:?10 min? Pajitnov asked his supervisor Victor Brjabrin, who had knowledge of the world outside the Soviet Union, to help him publish Tetris. Pajitnov offered to transfer the rights of the game to the Academy, and was delighted to receive a non-compulsory remuneration from Brjabrin through this deal.:?88? In 1986, Brjabrin sent a copy of Tetris to the Hungarian game publisher Novotrade.:?88? From there, copies of the game began circulating via floppy disks throughout Hungary and as far as Poland.:?89? Robert Stein, an international s ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15221 ***********************************************