Review
From Russia With(out) Love
by Craig Grannell (November 12th, 2010 at 1:22 pm)
Due to its simplicity, Tetris has stood the test of time. However, the game started life as the digital equivalent of creator Alexey Pajitnov’s favourite pentominoes game. He found it dull and games were over too quickly, and so through rapid iterations, he replaced the shapes with tetrominoes, made them fall into a well, and had solid lines vanish.
Presumably in an attempt to avoid being sued by The Tetris Company, iPentris takes the basics of Tetris but replaces its shapes with the pentominoes Pajitnov was so fond of, and it doesn’t really work.
"Nothing like Tetris" - Rarebyte legal team
