Discussion Apple TV + Tetris (Trailer) feat. Game Boy

[Dekuman]

This is what i imagined Console Wars would be like. Look like it tells the story that hews closely to David Scheff's initial retelling in Game Over (based on the trailer)
Unclear what source material they used, but it could have been a mix of various sources as the Tetris story has now been retold many times.

Per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(film)
Nintendo staff are featured heavily. (p..s ben miles is a great actor, but looks nothing like the real Howard Lincoln)

Cast​

• Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers
• Toby Jones as Robert Stein
• Nikita Yefremov as Alexey Pajitnov
• Roger Allam as Robert Maxwell
• Anthony Boyle as Kevin Maxwell
• Togo Igawa as Hiroshi Yamauchi
• Ken Yamamura as Minoru Arakawa
• Ben Miles as Howard Lincoln
• Matthew Marsh as Mikhail Gorbachev
• Rick Yune as Larry

 

[Party Sklar]

The Game Boy reveal in the trailer made me laugh, it looks like they’re showing an alien artifact. It should be fun !

 

[9-Volt]

Lol, Yamauchi in his first movie portrayal. looks just like him though.

Should have Gunpei Yokoi too, possibly as the person who introduced the Game Boy. it's his baby.

 

[Haziqonfire]

This looks great.

 

[terrornaught]

Can’t wait.

 

[Josh5890]

Not too bad.

 

[Dizzle]

Could go either way.

 

[SiG]

Who did they cast as Hiroshi Yamauchi?

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

Yamauchi is spot on, damn.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

oh dear, they represented the Famicom version using both of the 80s DOS versions.

it's a particularly baffling mistake considering it was directly developed by Bullet Proof Software, the company Henk Rogers owned (and would later turn into the Tetris Company.) it's also notably the origin of using Korobeiniki as the Tetris theme, with Hip Tanaka's Game Boy arrangement being noticably influenced by it.

the random action focused elements (like the car chase) are also noticably out of place, and doesn't really match up with the historical record. if anything, a more exaggerated take would closer to Ace Attorney than anything else.
in fact, it reminds me of an infamous creepypasta-esque story about Duke Nukem Forever that was spread as fact for a bit. portraying 3D Realms as a villainous group that uses violence to keep the game in perpetual development to hype up the Unreal Engine.

Faster than I can even remember (literally… I don’t remember) I was knocked out of my chair by I think of all people Tim Sweeney (it was a wooden kitchen chair) and was pinned on the ground by Mike Wilson and Cliffy B (he’s so much stronger than I ever expected). George walks over to my chair and fucking stomps the shit out of it until the legs are broken off. He casually picks up one of the legs that had split into a shit your pants style point and starts tossing it up and down. Scott and Mark Rein alternate on and off saying that I apparently wasn’t aware how real business is done and that if I didn’t want to find out why those two companies had maintained such a strong position in the industry dating back to the shareware days (when it seems people didn’t ask nearly as many questions about why developers appeared, made a game, and then disappeared without a trace)…
I had better reconsider my answer.

(don't worry, the author later came clean and admitted it was written as a joke.)
i wonder if this is the gaming story Apple is gonna adapt next?

 

[Dekuman]

oh dear, they represented the Famicom version using both of the 80s DOS versions.

it's a particularly baffling mistake considering it was directly developed by Bullet Proof Software, the company Henk Rogers owned (and would later turn into the Tetris Company.) it's also notably the origin of using Korobeiniki as the Tetris theme, with Hip Tanaka's Game Boy arrangement being noticably influenced by it.

the random action focused elements (like the car chase) are also noticably out of place, and doesn't really match up with the historical record. if anything, a more exaggerated take would closer to Ace Attorney than anything else.
in fact, it reminds me of an infamous creepypasta-esque story about Duke Nukem Forever that was spread as fact for a bit. portraying 3D Realms as a villainous group that uses violence to keep the game in perpetual development to hype up the Unreal Engine.

(don't worry, the author later came clean and admitted it was written as a joke.)
i wonder if this is the gaming story Apple is gonna adapt next?

we'll see in the final version but you'll note the same DOS Tetris is shown in its correct context at 0:13
I wonder if it is a rights issue and BPS/Nintendo refused them on showing the Nintendo Famicom versions? But Game Boy is there.