Who Invented Tetris?
Tetris was created by Alexey Leonidovich Pazhitnov of the USSR Academy of Sciences in June, 1984. After the dissolution of the USSR, the name of the academy has been changed to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Soon after, the inventor found himself engulfed in legal battles over the game rights. Vadim Gerasimov, a co-worker, exported the game to IBM in the United States. Now, he works as an engineer there. IBM PC launched the game in the United States in 1986 and it was a huge success. A British company, Andromeda, wanted to market it and after long political maneuvers they managed to obtain copyright holdings in 1987.
The government of the USSR, because of its ideology, was late to come to the market. They established a company, Electrotechnika, in 1988, to distribute the game rights; unfortunately, the company was not able to make money because companies in the United States and Britain had already taken hold of all the commercial rights. The inventor himself founded ‘The Tetris Company’ in 1996 because by then the inventor himself had made very little money from his invention and was lost to obscurity. but the companies, who used his product, grew richer. There have been many improvements since then. Electronic Gaming Monthly, a magazine, rated Tetris the greatest game of all times in its 100th issue.
Category: Inventions