Rubik's Cube in popular culture
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 106 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5140-9269-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rubik's Cube, a mid-1970s invention of Erno Rubik of Hungary, fascinated people around the globe and became one of the most popular games in America at the time. In just seven years worldwide sales surpassed thirty million units with a senior buyer at the New York FAO Schwarz toy emporium noting it had become "the world's most asked-for plaything". Some even argued it could lead to obsessive behavior. Pirated editions turned up in Taiwan, Hong Kong and some American cities. The cube spawned an array of sequels, spinoffs, a television show and literary works. As of January 2009 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It earned a place as a permanent exhibit in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and entered the Oxford English Dictionary after just two years. The Cube retains a dedicated following, with almost 40,000 entries on YouTube featuring tutorials and video clips of quick solutions. Данное...