Stages of production for Tetris

Developers

Tetris was designed by Alexey Pazhitnov from the Soviet Union on the 6th June 1984, while working at the Soviet Academy of Sciences with Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the IMB PC.

Publishers

Spectrum HoloByte bought the rights for the PC version of Tetris and released the game in the United States in 1986.
In 1987 Andromeda a British software company obtained the copyright licensing for the IBM PC and other home computer system.
In 1988 the Soviet government began to market the rights to Tetris through an organization called Elektronorgtechnica or Elorg.
In 1989 Nintendo owned the rights for Tetris and was taken up by a Dutch publisher called Henk Rogers.

Distributors

The biggest distributor from 1989 of the Tetris game was Nintendo as Tetris on the Game Boy was the most popular version of the game avaliable which sold over 70 million copies. However since the release of Tetris for mobile phones in 2005 they sold over 100 million copies of the game in just 5 years.

Marketing

Tetris has so many different versions of it, making it very easy for consumers to buy it. It can be brought in shops like Game or mail ordered from websites like Amazon for around £3 for the original Game Boy version, it is also avaliable on most mobile phones today as it either comes standard with the phone or is easily downloadable for it off the mobile interent usually around £2. Tetris can now be brought and downloaded off itunes for almost all the ipods released for £3.99 and is also downloadable from the app store on the iphones for a variety of prices.

Consumption

Tetris is mostly played on handheld consoles such as the Game Boy, mobile phone or the ipod as it is a simple game that doesn't require a high powered console to play it. It was also availiable on PC and many other various consoles. Tetris is not an online game however highscores have been posted on internet sites and forums.