I don't wanna be a jerk, but it's another proof that Tetris success was accidental. All other games are beyond suboptimal. Also interesting how one random success could define a man's future, career, happiness, money, etc.

• suzzer99

  yesterday at 12:03 AM

  Even the biggest bands only have 5% of their songs be huge hits. For any creative endeavor you're going to have some whiffs. The ratio of whiffs to hits probably depends on the nature of the medium.

• jamesforestwest

  last Sunday at 11:09 PM

  Still, the concept behind Tetris itself is good, so I wouldn’t call it a fluke

• cubefox

  yesterday at 12:16 AM

  > All other games are beyond suboptimal.

  Did you watch the entire 2 hour video to be able to say this? Which of these games did you actually play? The statement just seems totally unjustified.

videogamedunkey has a video about this, and it's done in his classic way where it's not clear if it's all a big joke

https://youtu.be/EUJb1BD63ME?si=C6xzUWgwAHIrjTBR

Honestly, the biggest discovery to me is that the game was created later than I expected. 1984 in the video title would put it in the same year as Duck Hunt; Wikipedia seems to suggest 1985 was the actual year it was published, which is the same year as Super Mario Bros (which itself came few years after Donkey Kong).