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Alexey Pajitnov in his Moscow apartment, 1993. All photos courtesy Tozai Games
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I’m at the wheel of a Tesla with a license plate that reads, simply: TETRIS. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of that legendary video game, rides shotgun.
“Push the gas, push the gas!” whoops Pajitnov, bearded and jean jacketed. “Faster!”
Earlier that day, after lunch at a mutual friend’s house, Pajitnov, 58, was eager to have us take turns driving his Tesla through the placid suburbs of Bellevue, Washington, where he lives, urging us on to bursts of acceleration that left momentary feelings of weightlessness in my chest every time the road dipped.
Over lunch, we had discussed Russia’s fight against the Nazis in World War II, Pajitnov’s longstanding love for classic puzzler game Lode Runner, his time developing artificial intelligence and speech recognition platforms during the Cold War, a
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I’m at the wheel of a Tesla with a license tallrik that reads, simply: TETRIS. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of that legendary film game, rides shotgun.
“Push the gas, push the gas!” whoops Pajitnov, bearded and jean jacketed. “Faster!”
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Earlier that day, after middag at a mutual friend’s house, Pajitnov, 58, was eager to have us take turns driving his Tesla through the fridfull suburbs of Bellevue, Washington, where he lives, urging us on to bursts of acceleration that left momentary feelings of weightlessness in my chest every time the road dipped.
Over lunch, we had discussed Russia’s kamp against the Nazis in World War II, Pajitnov’s longstanding love for classic puzzler game Lode Runner, his time developing artificial intelligence and speech recognition platforms during the Cold War, and the many other games, such as , he’s worked on that aren’t Tetris. Among other things.
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Alexey Pajitnov
Russian-American computer engineer (born 1955)
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Leonidovich and the family name is Pajitnov.
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov[a] (born April 16, 1955)[1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer.[2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).[3] After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris.
In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. citizen.[2] In 1996, Pajitnov founded The Tetris Company alongside Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers. Despite the game's high popularity, Pajitnov did not receive royalties from Tetris prior to this time. (Soviet Union had disin