14 DAY TRIAL // It’s no surprise that Steve Wozniak is a GameBoy fan, and an even bigger fan of the game Tetris, the original game that shipped with Nintendo’s handheld console in 1989.
But what you probably didn’t know is that Wozniak is a Tetris champion.
As the story goes, the Woz initially bough GameBoys for his kids and their friends. The children were actually the ones who taught Wozniak how to play the game.
“I didn’t even know the rules of the game,” he tells Game Informer.
“I started playing it and got a little skill…after a while, I was getting better scores than all my friends,” he relays to the gaming magazine.
He then proceeded to submit his record-shattering scores to Nintendo Power magazine. The publication soon got tired of publishing the same name time and time again on the first position, so the Apple co-founder was forced to submit his scores under a different name (spelled backwards).
“…and I always had the high score in the country…one time they didn’t want to print my name any more — I’d been in so often. I actually spelt my name backwards and forgot I’d done it, and the next month I saw it in there and got scared because someone else had the high score,” he says.