Tetris (Russian: тетрис) is a novel written by Russian Alexei? A casual game invented by Pakinov in June 1984. Although the game has been represented by many companies. However, after several rounds of litigation, the agency right of the game was finally obtained by Nintendo. Nintendo is of great significance to Tetris, because it has been a great success after being paired with GB.
As the most famous game in the world, it has become a childhood memory of people all over the world, and it can be played on almost all platforms at present. However, Tetris drama caused quite a storm in the future due to copyright issues. A number of companies have been involved in this lawsuit, some later made big money, while others closed down. It's a long story. The GB version of Tetris has produced a total of 3 million pieces, which is the most popular game in the series and can be ranked among the top ten in the game history. And the copyright of Tetris console was also acquired by Nintendo's legal department from the then arch-rival company Segana? Rob? Arrived. At that time, Sega launched Tetris on its new console MD, while Nintendo had already launched a game of the same name on its own console FC. Seeing the poacher here, Nintendo took Sega to court on the grounds of infringement, and Sega also rightfully countered by saying that it also owned copyright. Due to the unique situation of the Soviet Union at that time, the copyright of Tetris was very confusing. Nintendo's legal department flew to Moscow to learn about the situation, and the answer was actually: Sega does have copyright, but it is only the computer version of IBM-PC related architecture, which has nothing to do with home computers. Nintendo, who got the key evidence, returned to China and pointed out Sega's mistakes in court, thus winning the lawsuit. Not only that, Nintendo smashed a large sum of money when collecting evidence in litigation, and finalized the exclusive right of the motherboard from the former Soviet Union. And get a claim of 4.4 billion yen or about 27 million yuan!
how much money did Tetris make for Nintendo? I'm afraid the answer will never be clear. Think about it, in the United States, GB is bundled with Tetris to increase the shipment of GB? Then people who buy GB because of Tetris will buy other GB cards? If this is the case, the profit is like snowballing. This simple Tetris has brought countless wealth to Nintendo!