Tetris (2023)

Eddie: What's it called?
Henk Rogers: Tetris.
Eddie: Tetris... I don't get it.
Henk Rogers: It's a combination of tetra, Greek for "four"... All the game's pieces are variants of four... and tennis.
Eddie: Tennis?
Henk Rogers: Tennis. Yeah, supposedly, the Russian inventor, he, um... he likes tennis.

Tracy: Here, Henk. Try it.
Henk Rogers: Was this coded in Pascal, or C?

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, I played Tetris for five minutes, yeah. I still see falling blocks in my dreams. This game isn't just addictive. It stays with you. It's poetry. Art and math all working in magical synchronicity. It's… It's the perfect game.

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, this is different. Tetris is already a hit.
Eddie: Where?
Henk Rogers: Russia.
Eddie: Henk, there is no video games business in Russia.
Henk Rogers: I know.

Henk Rogers: It all began with a guy named Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, four years ago. By day, he worked as a programmer for the government at the Soviet Computer Science Center. But by night, he invented games for fun. His computer, a Stone Age, Soviet piece of crap called an Electronika 60, didn't even have a graphics card. His falling blocks were parentheses pushed together.

Henk Rogers: Alexey and a couple of buddies from work made the game IBM-compatible. Which meant color graphics, 8-bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free. It spread like wildfire.

Henk Rogers: But this is the Soviet Union, remember? Nothing gets out easily. It would take an entrepreneur to actually go there and monetize it.
Eddie: Who? You?
Henk Rogers: Jesus, no. I'm not that crazy. That was Robert Stein.

Hiroshi Yamauchi: Not too bad.
Henk Rogers: Really?

Hiroshi Yamauchi: We publish our games in-house. We don't use outside partners.
Henk Rogers: You don't do it often, true. But you do make exceptions. Because you know as well as I do, partners are what make us great. That's why Mario has Luigi. That's why Zelda has Link. That's why Mike Tyson has whoever he's punching out in Punch-Out!!

Henk Rogers: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Eddie. Nintendo is letting me become a publisher. Nintendo. It's a license to print money.

Henk Rogers: An NDA? Why?
Howard Lincoln: Because only ten other people in the world have seen what you're about to see, and, to be honest, we don't trust you.

Henk Rogers: 8-bit graphics?
Minoru Arakawa: Yes, and a brand-new Sharp LR35902 core at 4.19 mega-hertz with eight kilobytes internal RAM.
Henk Rogers: Impressive. No color screen?
Minoru Arakawa: Color, you'd need eight batteries instead of four. It's too expensive. This gives you 30 hours of game play, all for $89.
Henk Rogers: What's it called?
Howard Lincoln: It's called the Game Boy.

Henk Rogers: Gentlemen, if you wanna sell a couple hundred thousand Game Boys to little kids, package them with Mario. But if you wanna sell millions of Game Boys to absolutely everyone, young and old, around the world, package them with Tetris.
Howard Lincoln: Can you get us the rights?

Henk Rogers: Screw it. I'm gonna go to Moscow.
Howard Lincoln: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, you can't just go to the Soviet Union, Henk. You need a... You need a business visa, a full background check. It takes months.
Henk Rogers: Well, I'll get a tourist visa then.
Howard Lincoln: So, you'll lie? That's a felony. They could throw you in jail.
Henk Rogers: I'll take my chances.

Howard Lincoln: Who you gonna talk to?
Henk Rogers: Some company called ELORG.
Howard Lincoln: Companies don't exist in the USSR, Henk. ELORG is probably KGB.
Henk Rogers: Do you guys want this game or not?
Howard Lincoln: Yeah, course we do. But you're walking into a communist country that still considers America enemy numero uno. If you go, we can't protect you.
Henk Rogers: Okey dokey then.

Immigration Agent: You're Danish?
Henk Rogers: Huh? No. I'm Dutch.
Immigration Agent: Yet you sound American.
Henk Rogers: Well, I grew up in New York, but I'm Dutch. An... And I live in Japan.

Sasha: Salutations. You're in need of succor?
Henk Rogers: Excuse me?
Sasha: Uh, succor. Noun. Uh, assistance in times of stress. Synonymous with help... Sasha. Translation services. Esteemed to meet you.
Henk Rogers: Oh.

Sasha: He inquires, "What is Nintendo?"
Henk Rogers: Ha. Very funny... Uh, Nintendo's the most popular video game console in the world, sir.

Sasha: He denies obtaining a tape. And says that this is an illegal copy. Mr. Rogers, I think we should vanish.
Henk Rogers: He thinks I stole Tetris?
Sasha: Affirmative.

Henk Rogers: Pascal or assembler?
Alexey Pajitnov: I was gonna ask you the same thing.
Henk Rogers: Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate…
Alexey Pajitnov: …the power of BASIC.
Henk Rogers: That's spooky.

Howard Lincoln: What makes you so sure this Alexey character isn't lying?
Henk Rogers: Because he's the only one who stands to gain nothing from this.

Sasha: Why is it so important that the Maxwells win? Isn't the offer with more money better for the Soviet Union?
Valentin Trifonov: I'll concern myself with the fate of the Soviet Union. You go and do your job. Dismissed.

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