Henk Rogers

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Henk Rogers

Henk Rogers (* 1953 in the Netherlands ) is a Dutch computer game developer and entrepreneur.

Life and work

Rogers came to New York at the age of eleven, where he attended high school before studying computer science at the University of Hawaii . He moved to Japan in the late 1970s and founded his first company, Bullet-Proof Software , in 1983 . He then developed The Black Onyx, the first Japanese computer role-playing game . Rogers is the founder and owner of the computer game company Blue Planet Software . He sold the company Blue Lava Wireless LLC , which he also founded, to Jamdat in 2005 for about 137 million US dollars . His company, The Tetris Company, markets the rights to Tetris .

Tetris

Rogers made a particular appearance in the fight for the issuing of licenses for the computer game Tetris, which he was able to decide for his company.

He discovered the game in 1988 at a computer fair at the Atari Games booth and brought it to Nintendo in Japan , where they began developing their own version and selling it. His friendship with Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow , the inventor of Tetris, enabled him to acquire the license for game consoles (this license secured the highest sales) from the then Russian state company ELORG. In 1990 he helped Paschitnow to emigrate from Russia to the USA, where he founded a computer graphics company with AnimaTek. In 1996 the rights to Tetris were returned to Paschitnow and Rogers moved from Japan to Hawaii, where he founded Blue Planet Software .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edge editors: The Making of ... Japan's First RPG ( English ) Future, plc. March 6, 2008. Archived from the original on March 8, 2008. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ www.greatergoodradio.com
personal data
SURNAME Rogers, Henk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Netherlands