Alexey Pajitnov
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Alexey Pajitnov in Barcelona, Spain,
14 June 2008 |
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| Born |
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov 14 March 1956 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation |
Video game designer Computer engineer |
| Known for | Developer of Tetris |
| Awards |
Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award LARA - Der Deutsche Games Award |
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (Russian: Алексе́й Леони́дович Па́житнов, [ɐlʲɪˈksʲej lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ ˈpaʐɨtnəf]; Alekséi Leonídovich Pázhitnov; born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed Tetris while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center.
He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company.
Pajitnov was born on 14 March 1956 in Moscow, Soviet Union. As a child, he was a fan of puzzles and played with pentomino toys. In creating Tetris, he drew inspiration from these toys.
Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1984. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986.
Pajitnov also created a sequel to Tetris, entitled Welltris, which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment where the player sees the playing area from above.Tetris was licensed and managed by Soviet company ELORG which had been founded especially for this purpose, and advertised with the slogan "From Russia with Love" (on NES: "From Russia With Fun!"). Because he was employed by the Soviet government, Pajitnov did not receive royalties.
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