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 Moscow.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. Much like the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being the first person to beat the original Tetris game would have been enough for 13-year-old Willis Gibson, a shy teen who ...

Turns out Mom was wrong about video games rotting your brain — at least when it comes to Tetris. The block-stacking and puzzle-solving delight first launched in 1984 on the Nintendo Entertainment ...

The action puzzle game Tetris the Grand Master first appeared in game arcades in August 1998, and became a beloved game for gamers as a Tetris game packed with addictive elements. Then, Tetris the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Alexey Pajitnov (right) - Soviet computer engineer and programmer, ...

A robot clears a sphere of Tetris blocks on the cover art for Tetrisphere - Nintendo The '80s classic "Tetris" is a retro game that everyone needs to play at least once in their life and has been ...

Many game fans have enjoyed the Tetris movie, which chronicled the creation and licensing of Tetris, the addictive game that Alexey Pajitnov created behind the Iron Curtain. His friend Henk Rogers ...

Across multiple decades, there isn’t a puzzle game with as big a reach as Tetris. The falling-block puzzle game has sold hundreds of millions since Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov developed the ...

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The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. Much like the game itself, it’s a story that involved a lot of moving pieces that ...

The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. Much like the game itself, it's a story that involved a lot of moving pieces that ...