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Bookmark or Share- Tetris - WikipediaMirrorsoft ported Tetris to platforms including the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Tetris was a commercial success in Europe and the United States: Mirrorsoft sold tens of thousands of copies in two months,: 91 and Spectrum HoloByte sold over 100,000 units in the space of a year.
- How ‘Tetris’ crossed the Iron Curtain and took over the worldMaxwell’s company, Mirrorsoft, prepared to distribute Tetris worldwide using exoticized Soviet-themed branding. Mirrorsoft also sold the rights to develop the game for home gaming devices and coin-operated machines to Atari before officially securing them. But there were L-shaped roadblocks.
- Is Mirrorsoft a Real Company? Does it Still Exist? - The CinemaholicYes, Mirrorsoft is a real company. The video game publisher was founded by Jim Mackonochie, who was a development manager for Mirror Group Newspapers. In the early 1980s, Mackonochie proposed to the heads of the Mirror Group that the company should expand its operations to software, which paved the way for the launch of Mirrorsoft in 1983.
- Mirrorsoft - WikipediaMirrorsoft was a British video game publisher founded by Jim Mackonochie as a division of Mirror Group Newspapers. The company was active between 1983 and 1991, and shut down completely in early 1992.
- The True Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Tetris' Movie | TIMEMiscommunication over the Soviet licensing process led Stein to prematurely sell the PC version of Tetris to Spectrum HoloByte, the American arm of British video game publisher Mirrorsoft, and...
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