Alexey Pajitnov will always be the creator of Tetris. But Henk Rogers was much more important to the game as we now know it than a mere licensor.

When Henk Rogers read the script for the Tetris movie — about his journey into the Soviet Union to get the rights to Alexey Pajitnov’s ... Traveling to Moscow, he navigated tense negotiations ...

Tetris may have first arrived in the West on machines such as the PC and Amiga, but its genesis at the hands of [Alexey Pajitnov] was on an Electronika 60, a Soviet clone of an early-1970s DEC PDP-11.

Tracing back to the genesis, 1984 was the year Alexey Pajitnov and his colleagues created Tetris, a game that quickly gained worldwide popularity. Consequently, variations of the game began to ...

While legendary puzzle game Tetris was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, it spread around the world largely thanks to the efforts of Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software. Through a ...