Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow

Alexei Paschitnow, Barcelona 2008.

Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow ( Russian Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов , often in the English spelling Alexey Pajitnov , born March 14, 1956 ) is a Russian programmer who currently lives in the United States .

Together with Dmitri Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimow , he invented the popular computer game Tetris in 1984 while working at the Moscow Academy of Sciences . Since the game was officially distributed by the Soviet Union , Paschitnow received nothing from the revenue that the game brought in. In 1991 he emigrated to the United States , where he founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers , where he developed other Tetris-style games. From the end of 1996 to 2005 he worked for Microsoft . The rights originally granted for Tetris also expired in 1996, so that he has since received money for the game he developed. However, at that point in time the profits were only a fraction of the sums paid in previous years.

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Part of the documentation Highscore - The History of Computer Games deals with the history of the origins and the problems of the marketing of Tetris at the time and shows some old recordings by Alexei Paschitnow and Henk Rogers.

In the novel Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon , an airship captain named Igor Padsitnow appears. His ship is called Bolshaia Igra , which translates as The Great Game . He fights his opponents by throwing off " bricks and masonry - always in blocks of four fragments ".

Web links

Commons : Alexey Pajitnov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow at MobyGames (English)

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1. ↑ golem.de: Interview: Tetris - the mother of all casual games