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The Tetris Company, Inc. (TTC) is the manager and licensor for the Tetris brand to third parties. [1] It is an American company based in Nevada and owned by the Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers. [2] The company is the exclusive licensee of Tetris Holding LLC, the company that owns Tetris rights worldwide. [3]
Tetris is the second-best-selling video game franchise, with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile. Tetris has been influential in the genre of puzzle video games and popular culture. It is an early example of a casual game and it is represented in a vast array of media such as architecture and art. It has been the subject of academic ...
Atari and Nintendo had several contemporaneous lawsuits, including a dispute over the rights to publish Tetris. [22] [27] Nintendo successfully sued Atari Games subsidiary Tengen, establishing their exclusivity over the Tetris license, and hastening the decline of Tengen's business. [28]
By the early 2000s, Rogers and Pajitnov created The Tetris Company to control the Tetris intellectual property, and to license their rights to game developers who comply with certain standards. [ 3 ] In 2009, Desiree Golden founded a game studio called Xio Interactive, and released a mobile game called Mino based on the gameplay of Tetris. [ 4 ]
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher. The company, founded in 1983, was known for its simulation games, notably the Falcon series of combat flight simulators, and for publishing the first version of Tetris outside the Soviet Union (in 1988 for MS-DOS).
Henk Rogers is an Indonesian-Dutch 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 ...
Tetrisphere is a puzzle video game developed by H2O Entertainment and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.It was released in North America on August 11, 1997, and in PAL regions in February 1998.
The Tetris Company won its case against Xio Interactive, on the basis that Xio's game Mino (right) copied too much of the look-and-feel of Tetris (left). In the United States, the underlying source code, and the game's artistic elements, including art, music, and dialog, can be protected by copyright law. [16]