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] .

Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) [a] is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. Players move tetrominoes, which move down the playing field, to fill horizontal lines. The completed lines disappear, granting the player points, and all other blocks move down the corresponding number of lines.

2022年12月5日 · Once in the US, Alexey and Henk established The Tetris Company, through which they could sell the game and gain loyalty. On the other hand, while still in Russia, Alexey co-founded the tech company, AnimaTek, alongside Vladimir Pokhilko, and the two created the simple computer game ‘El-Fish.’

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 ...

2023年4月4日 · Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris while working for a state-owned computer center in 1984. An early deal he made cut him out of earnings.

2023年4月1日 · Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers have known each other a long time. The man who created Tetris and the man who (more or less) sold it to the world met 34 years ago in a government office in...

A lifelong love of puzzles and strategy gaming has led Moscow-born (April 16, 1955) Alexey Pajitnov to worldwide recognition as one of the computer game industry’s most renowned game designers.

2016年10月13日 · It all began with a puzzle-loving software engineer named Alexey Pajitnov, who created "Tetris" in 1984 while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a...

2025年2月11日 · Tetris, video game created by Russian designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985 that allows players to rotate falling blocks strategically to clear levels.

2023年12月24日 · Alexey Pajitnov, a skilled Soviet computer programmer, is the mastermind behind Tetris, conceived in 1984. Imagine this: amid the Cold War in the Soviet Union, Pajitnov crafted a game that would later sweep the globe. His creation transcended borders, capturing the hearts of gamers worldwide.