Alexey Pajitnov

...excited to see cortical thickness differences between the girls that practiced Tetris and those who did not." Tetris was developed by a Russian programmer, Alexey Pajitnov, in 1984 and remains one of the world's most popular computer games.

In this article: Tetris, Albuquerque, and US

...the background of its developer. Alexey Pajitnov was 29 and working for the Moscow Academy of Sciences when he completed "Tetris" on June 6, 1984, for a Soviet computer system called the Elektronika. A computer programmer by day who...

In this article: Tetris, Nintendo, Barcade, Moscow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Georgia Tech

...changed its logo -- to a Tetris theme! Why? To celebrate the iconic videogame's birthday. It was 25 years ago today that Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris. Over the past 25 years Tetris has sold over 70 million copies, and we named it the #1...

In this article: Tetris and Google

Gerasimov was reluctant to go into further details but in an article published on his website he claims he was hoodwinked by Pajitnov, who attempted to profit from Tetris several years later with the American entrepreneur, Hank Rogers.

In this article: Vadim Gerasimov, Tetris, Google, Google Wave, Civilisation, Moscow University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In 1984, Soviet Academy of Sciences researcher Alexey Pajitnov alongside Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov developed Tetris out of a desire to create a two-player puzzle game, and the game spread commercially amongst computers. In...

In this article: Tetris, Game Boy, Nintendo, Robert Stein, Tengen, Spectrum HoloByte, and IGN

...the original Russian infiltrator: Tetris. The simple yet addictive puzzle was created by 29-year-old Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov during his off hours in Cold War Moscow back in 1984. The game migrated to North American PCs,...

In this article: Tetris, Russia, 505 Games, NPD Group, Game Boy, Microsoft, and United States

...a new mobile platform. Among the free apps available for download from the Zune Marketplace are Chess, Goo Splat, Hexic (from Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov), Shell Game, Space Battle 2, Sudoku and Texas Hold 'Em. Microsoft plans to...

In this article: Zune HD, E mail, Microsoft, Chess, BioShock 2, Platinum, Hexic, Wired.com, Brutal Legend, and Project Gotham Racing

Knight Move Knight Move is an action puzzle game created by Alexey Pajitnov (the creator of Tetris) for the Famicom Disk System in 1990. A similar but notably different game by the name of Knight Moves (Note, "Moves" is now plural) was...

In this article: Knight Move, Microsoft Windows, and Tetris

...screen." Pajitnov made a computer program that he came to call Tetris, which basically involves a player manipulating variously shaped blocks dropping along a screen with the goal of getting them to mesh into rows without gaps. Blue Planet...

In this article: Tetris, Blue Planet Software, Los Angeles, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Moscow, and Japan