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Robert Maxwell pressured Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to cancel the contract between Elorg and Nintendo concerning the rights to the game Tetris. [6] In 1991, as the Soviet Union was being dissolved, Elorg was turned into a private business by its director, Nikolai Belikov. [7] Elorg was sold to The Tetris Company in January 2005 for ...
Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Elorg was privatized. The Tetris Company was established in 1996 by Pajitnov and Rogers to manage the worldwide licensing of the property. The visual expression in official Tetris games is covered by copyrights that are owned by Tetris Holding, LLC, the company into which Pajitnov placed his Tetris rights ...
Henk Rogers is a Dutch Indonesian video game designer and entrepreneur. [3] [4] He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The ...
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
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Guideposts for Kids, Guideposts Associates Inc. ( –2001) Guitar for the Practicing Musician (1982–1999) Guitar Shop, Cherry Lane Magazines Inc. (1994–2000) Gulfscapes Magazine (2001–2012) Gunton's Magazine (1891–1904)
Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids: Viacom, MTV Networks: December 31, 2007: Launched on March 1, 1999. Replaced by The N, though continued to exist on Dish Network until April 23, 2009, when it was replaced by Cartoon Network's Pacific feed. PBJ: Luken Communications: March 31, 2016: Launched on August 1, 2011.
WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. [1]