I'm only familiar with that video you linked by Gaming Historian, so I'm curious about this movie. But I am "worried" about them playing up the drama, which it just doesn't need. Like you said, the story itself is wonderful - smart, inventive, if somewhat naive, developer surpressed by the horrible system of SovietRussia, contrasted with western creative ways to make money.

I just finished it and enjoyed it a lot. They definitely spiced up the story with a lot of fictionalized drama, but it was entertaining. My primary gripe was how fast development was portrayed (let me go ahead and whip up a working demo of this game on experimental hardware in about 15 seconds, no problem) and the effortless international travel, but that's understandable to keep the story moving.

I would also recommend overriding the AppleTV+ UI and letting the credits run for a bit. There are some neat home movies from the real Henk Rogers from his trip to Moscow.

I just finished it and I loved it.

I figured the story was dramatized to make the movie more exciting, but I was truly fascinated with the story. I had no clue Tetris came from the USSR. So to learn everything that went into making it what it was turned out to be a great watch for me.

I’m a big fan of Taron Egerton as well

I thought this a was a fabulous film, from music to story to execution in editing-

Obviously it has its cheesy moments with the cgi Tetris and 80's graphical puns on arcade games in the 80/90's, but the story sold me.

It reminded me of the Masterworks course by Aaron Sorkin when he discussed how to write "the social network"- how he found the "story". He basically goes on about finding a through line in a true story, and using it as an anchoring point to create the film. In the social networks case it was the lawsuit.

This lawsuit with Tetris rang true to me, or at least called me back to that video I watched.

I just watched "console wars" the south by south west winner (of some awards), so the Nintendo reps names I already knew.

I'd highly recommend watching that before this, to give you a bit of doc before the fic experience!

Overall though, I loved the dynamic, and it gave me a bit of condensed "Queens Gambit" vibe in the later acts.

Great movie; enjoyed it quite a bit.

> They definitely spiced up the story with a lot of fictionalized drama

Yep, when I was watching it I was thinking "there's no way that happened, or that, or that, or that and there definitely wasn't a CAR CHASE to the airport" etc and so on

Either way, I really enjoyed it and recommend that everyone watch The Gaming Historian's - The Story of Tetris