Alexey Pajitnov

Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Пажитнов, born 1956, Russia), whose last name is sometimes transliterated Pazhitnov, is a Russian computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Computer Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D centre. Image File history File links Alexey_Pajitnov_(Scientist_&_Computer_Engineer). ... Image File history File links Alexey_Pajitnov_(Scientist_&_Computer_Engineer). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A drawing of a desktop computer. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Tetris is a puzzle game invented by Alexey Pajitnov (last name sometimes transliterated Pazhitnov) in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. ... Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of research and technological development. ...

Biography

Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986. Pajitnov also created the lesser known sequel to Tetris, entitled Welltris, which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment were you see the "board" from above. Screen shots are available here The Soviet bureaucracy licensed and managed Tetris, and advertised it with the slogan "From Russia with Love". Because he was employed by the Soviet government, Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov moved to USA in 1991 and founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers. The term Western world or the West can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science. ... RUSSIAN OMPANY, PRODUCED SMALL MACHINES, WHICH WHERE SIMILAR TO GAME BOY, BUT NO CARTIGES, WAS MADE 20 YEARS B4RE GAMEB0Y ... Henk Rogers licensed the computer game Tetris directly from the Russian Government organisation ELORG for handheld games and consoles, beating Robert Maxwells empire to the licence rights of the game. ...

He helped design the puzzles in the Super NES versions of Yoshi's Cookie and designed the game Pandora's Box, which incorporates more traditional jigsaw-style puzzles. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, and Australia. ... Yoshis Cookie is a puzzle game made for the Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System), Game Boy and Super Nintendo. ... Pandoras Box is a PC puzzle game published by Microsoft. ... A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly-shaped, interlocking pieces. ...

He began working for Microsoft in October 1996. He worked for the Microsoft Entertainment Collection Puzzle Pack and MSN Mind Aerobics. As of 2004, he is part of the Microsoft's Zone Group, which creates games for MSN. Microsoft Corporation NASDAQ: MSFT is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) was a collection of simply-designed computer games for the Windows 3. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MSN (or Microsoft Network) is an Internet service provider and web portal (initially meant to be a parallel net to the Internet) created by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, coinciding with the release of Windows 95. ...

On August 18, 2005 WildSnake Software announced[1] Pajitnov will be collaborating with them and releasing a new line up of puzzle games. August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Most recently, Pajitnov's new, enhanced version of Hexic, "Hexic HD," was included with every new Xbox 360 Hard Drive. The Xbox 360 is Microsofts newest video game console, the successor to their original Xbox. ...

Works

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References

• Angela Gunn (December 9–15, 1999). "Game boy". Seattle Weekly.

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External links

• Alexey Pazhitnov - The Father of Tetris