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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 ]
Rogers and Akemi watch Maya perform and Rogers shows Akemi a $5 million check to Bullet-Proof Software. Pajitnov watches the Singing Revolution on television when Rogers sends him a Game Boy and its Tetris. Rogers flies Pajitnov's family to the US. An epilogue reveals Rogers and Pajitnov have started The Tetris Company and remain good friends.
Despite the difference in their appearance, Pajitnov, pale with a … ‘Tetris’ Creator Alexey Pajitnov and Company Co-Founder Henk Rogers Celebrate Game’s 40th Anniversary at Lucca Comic and ...
Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris, a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems.
Mario (/ ˈ m ɑːr i oʊ, ˈ m ær i oʊ /; Japanese: マリオ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.He is the star of the Mario franchise, a recurring character in the Donkey Kong franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo.
Alexey Pajitnov, the designer of the original Tetris, called the Game Boy version his favorite. Tetris was first created in 1985 [7] by Alexey Pajitnov. In 1988, Pajitnov teamed with fellow Soviet Academy of Sciences researchers Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov to create a new two-player version of Tetris that ran on PCs. [8]
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 ...
A friend of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, he was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. [2] He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of the game, and a 1999 article in the Forbes magazine credited him for "co-inventing the seminal videogame Tetris". [3]