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Alexey Pajitnov (right) with Dutch games publisher Henk Rogers, who helped place the game on every Game Boy. With Project Natal, Uncharted 2, Metroid: Other M, Scribblenauts, and everything else ...
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 ]
One of the main licensees of the game was Bullet-Proof Software, owned by Henk Rogers, with whom Pajitnov struck up a friendship. 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.
Alexey Pajitnov (pictured in 2024) was the creator of Tetris. Alexey Pajitnov was a speech recognition and artificial intelligence researcher for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences. [13] Pajitnov developed several puzzle games on the institute's Electronika 60, [14] an archaic Russian clone of the PDP-11 computer. [2]
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 ...
ELORG was a partner in The Tetris Company which licenses the Tetris name to game companies, along with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and businessman Henk Rogers. Elorg was a 50 percent owner in the company until Rogers and Pajitnov bought ELORG's remaining rights around 2005. [13] [14]
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]
Around 5:40, the narrator states the first colour version of Tetris was developed in the summer of 1985, and it was the version that Pajitnov lent to friend outside the computer center, and in turn, copied it to their friends. I don't believe the Elektronika 60 is even capable of producing colour.