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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915
As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations
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Yeah it being an incredibly addictive universally approachable game has nothing to do with it being widely played for over 40 years… 🙄
Psst. Almost 40 years. Tetris was released in 1985 not 1983
This comment brought to you by an old fuck that doesn’t need to be artificially aged to be even older
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No it wouldn’t. Tetris was going to get played by millions whether someone licensed it or not. That’s why there was such a mad scramble to land a deal.
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You don’t need licensing to copy that floppy. That’s what your mind can’t grasp.
The Soviet Union owned all copyright, there was no licensing let alone individual copyright.
Where are you getting floppies from? Where are you getting your computer from?
Computers and floppies existed outside of the USSR, as did Tetris.
The floppy, invented by IBM, one of the biggest capitalist companies ever??
That’s only because in the West there was no way for the game to reach customers at the time. The game was popular in the “Soviet Block” just fine, because distribution model was different.
Today, it would spread through internet like fire.
Sure, I’m always playing Vietnamese and Cuban games. They’re grrrreat!
And Tetris was only successful because of licencing, let’s not create an alternative history here