Is Tetris so popular today and what has changed in it since the release date?
Tetris – game, which the world saw for the first time in 1984 year. Since then, the game has been liked by a lot of people.. The number of copies of the game sold since then is very high.. Head of the company in 2007 year declared the order 425 million copies sold all time. This indicates, that the popularity of Tetris is quite high today. However, talking about this game, then today I will disassemble it not as a classic version of the game, published in 1984 year, but as a more modern adaptation “Tetris 99“.
However, Tetris earned popularity due to the simplicity and at the same time the originality of its concept.. After all, the player does not need to delve into some intricate details of the plot or focus on the meticulous passage of stealth missions.. Everything is easier here. There is a tetramino, which the player needs to line up, to get points (one of the variations of the game) .
But for today, на 2019 year, the world has seen many hit games. Examples of this minecraft, PUBG, CS 1.6, CSGO and others.
So what do the numbers tell us about the popularity of Tetris today? ?
I’ll start with that, what exactly is TETRIS 99 is the most popular version of the game today. Briefly, the essence of the game is, what is 99 players, who compete against each other for elimination. That is, who is the slowest, he is the first to go, and so on.. So here is the number of active players by April 2019 year reached about 3 million.
Also on Tetris with 2010 world championships are held, and in 2019 year the prize fund of the game is 10000 dollars per 16 places.