What's What! Video Game Facts (78/365)

Steve Wozniak was the Co-founder of Apple Inc. and personal friend of Steve Jobs back in 1976, was a great engineer and passionate about electronics, but the Woz was also a great enthusiast of video games, but one in particular captured more interest and time than others and this was the Tetris.

His addiction for the game was so much that he managed to become a truly Tetris champion, the genius of apple began to participate actively in 1988 in the ranking published in the magazine created by the developer company of the Game Boy called Nintendo Power. From his home in Los Gatos/California, Wozniak in the early nineties put pieces together like a demon. The four cubes game it was no match for the engineer who helped create the most popular computers of the decade in the United States.

Month after month the "other Steve" reach the highest scores, so his name was published multiple times, in the Nintendo Power magazine's monthly rankings, the winning streak continued for so long that Nintendo told him his name had been there too many damn times, and that they wouldn't print it again.

Later the tetris champion after racked up another high score, don't take the indirect or rather direct from nintendo so he sends again the score, but this time uses another name and address, so it is born Evets Kainzow from Saratoga/california the new champion, which is nothing more than steve name but spelled backward.

A funny fact that Steve tells:

"When I got the magazine I'd forgotten doing this and was worried that a foreigner from the next city over I used Saratoga instead of Los Gatos so they wouldn't catch on, had a score up in my range", he said. "I got worried but then remembered my joke. Whew!"