The history of Tetris is fascinating from any angle. Politics, espionage, copyright battles, and a humble developer who had to wait twelve years for his first royalties define one of the most influential games in the industry. The number of clones is staggering, and on several occasions it has been transformed into an 'easter egg,' hidden inside other systems. This time, Tetris has reached the dashboard of the Russian GAZelle Next van — and it's not easy to activate.
If you need a daily dose of Tetris, you don't have to do much to get it. A simple Google search will take you to dozens of online copies, including the one offered by the official 'Tetris Holding' site. The game has never lost its popularity, and if we're honest, that will never happen. Tetris has reached every platform you can imagine, and some programmers have fun hiding copies inside their products. A classic example is the terminal in Macs, but someone decided to go further, hiding the game in the dashboard of a van. Yes, you read that right: a van.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2-qHo7YT4w8The GAZelle Next and Its Hidden Game
The vehicle in question is the GAZelle Next, which we have seen as a cargo unit, passenger bus, ambulance, and frozen food transport. The steps to follow are six: Turn on the ignition, start the van, activate the right turn signal three times, press the odometer reset twice, step on the clutch five times, and rev the engine to more than 2,000 revolutions while turning the left control. Judging by the plastic on the steering wheel, this is a new van that hasn't yet hit the streets.
The big question is how they found this copy of Tetris on the dashboard of a GAZelle Next. Most likely, the firmware developer published the steps somewhere, because the process is too complicated to discover accidentally. It doesn't matter: if you have access to this van, don't hesitate to try it.
