Tetris
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Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sor
Alexey Pajitnov (pictured in 2008), the creator of Tetris
Tetris running on a Nintendo Game Boy
A fifth-generation iPod running Tetris (2006)
Maya Rogers (pictured in 2022) succeeded her father as CEO of Blue Planet Software in January 2014.
Henk Rogers
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Henk Rogers is a Dutch-born American video game designer and entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distr
Tetris
…the UK and Spectrum HoloByte in the US. Both companies released Tetris in 1988 to commercial success and sublicensed to additional companies, including Henk Rogers' Bullet-Proof Software. Rogers negotiated with Elektronorgtechnica, the state-owned organization in charge of licensing Soviet software, to license…
Rogers in 2025