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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 ]
Since his death in mid-2009, he has topped the list every year except for 2009, 2012, and 2021–22. This is a list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities as ranked by Forbes magazine since October 2001.
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 ...
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]
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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 ...
Brad William Johnson (October 24, 1959 – February 18, 2022) [2] was an American actor and former Marlboro Man, [3] best known for his roles in films and television series during the late 1980s and 1990s. He gained prominence for his performances in Westerns and action-adventure films.
Grimes was born in San Francisco, California. His uncle was actor Rudy Solari. [1] Grimes' first major role was in the 1971 film Summer of '42, playing a teenager, based on author Herman Raucher, who has an affair with a beautiful older woman (Jennifer O'Neill).