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Tetris
''Tetris'' () is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. In ''Tetris'', falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile; once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from overflowing. Over 200 versions of ''Tetris'' have been published by numerous companies on more than 65 platforms, often with altered game mechanics, some of which have become standard over time. To date, these versions of ''Tetris'' collectively serve as the second-best-selling video game series with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile devices. In the 1980s, Pajitnov worked for the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences, where he programmed ''Tetris'' on the Elektronika 60 and adapted it to the IBM PC with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov. Floppy disk copies were distributed freely throughout Moscow, before spreading to Eastern Europe. Robert Stein of Andro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tetris Variants
This is a list of variants of the game series ''Tetris''. It includes officially licensed ''Tetris'' sequels, as well as unofficial Video game clone, clones. In 2017 ''Guinness World Records'' reported ''Tetris'' to be the game with most official versions released at 220, over 65 different platforms. Official games Unofficial games Clones and unofficial variants * Ultimate Tetris' is a Tetris game that has more than 20 block types, a few new game modes, and a "Hardcore" mode where the game is played on a 125x125 grid. * ''PicTiles'' is a variant of ''Tetris'' in which the tetrominoes are used to fill in pictures. The game is available as shareware for OS X (PPC and Intel) and was originally released in 2004 by Charcoal Designwebsite. * California Dreams released a ''Tetris'' variant called ''Blockout''website in ''1989''. It is played in three dimensions from a top-down perspective. The basic mode uses standard tetrominos, which can be manipulated with three differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetris (NES)
''Tetris'', also known as classic ''Tetris'', is a puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Based on ''Tetris'' (1985) by Alexey Pajitnov, it was released after a legal battle between Nintendo and Atari Games, who had previously released a console port outside of the terms of their ''Tetris'' license. Bullet-Proof Software had previously released ''Tetris'' for the Family Computer in December 1988, while Nintendo had released ''Tetris'' for the Game Boy earlier in 1989. Nintendo licensed exclusive home console rights for the ''Tetris'' intellectual property from Soviet authorities, leaving Atari unaware that they did not possess these rights from their license. As they were forced to quickly recall their version of ''Tetris'' for the NES, this was a major blow to Atari and their involved subsidiary Tengen. American reviewers held Nintendo's version to be an inferior product to Atari's recalled version. This ''Tetri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Tetris World Championship
The Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is a video game competition series hosted by the SoCal Gaming Expo. The competition launched in 2010, during the filming of '' Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters'', to determine the world's greatest ''Tetris'' player. In its first two years, the competition was held in Los Angeles, California, but was moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2012, and was held there annually through 2023 (with the exceptions of the 2020 and 2021 tournaments, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Since 2024, the tournament has been held in Pasadena, California. The contestants play the 1989 Nintendo version of ''Tetris'' on Nintendo Entertainment System consoles and cathode-ray tube (CRT) video displays. All of the tournaments are streamed online with live-edited screens and heads-up display to improve the viewer experience. The tournament was initially dominated by Jonas Neubauer, who reached the finals in the first nine iterations of the tournament and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tetris Company
The Tetris Company, Inc. (TTC) is the manager and licensor for the ''Tetris'' brand to third parties. It is an American company based in Nevada and owned by the ''Tetris'' creator Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers. The company is the exclusive licensee of Tetris Holding LLC, the company that owns ''Tetris'' rights worldwide. History ''Tetris'' was created in 1985 by Pajitnov. As the initial versions of the game spread through the Eastern Bloc, interest in licensing it for western commercial release drew much attention. Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) was the Soviet agency created to control the import and export of hardware and software outside the Soviet Union. As part of the licensing of the game, Pajitnov agreed to let Elorg handle all licensing for a 10-year period. One of the main licensees of the game was Bullet-Proof Software, owned by Henk Rogers, with whom Pajitnov struck up a friendship. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Elorg was privatized. The Tetris Company was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetris (Game Boy)
is a 1989 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It is a portable version of Alexey Pajitnov's original ''Tetris'' and it was bundled with the North American and European releases of the Game Boy itself. It is the first game to have been compatible with the Game Link Cable, a pack-in accessory that allows two Game Boy consoles to link for multiplayer purposes. A remaster, ''Tetris DX'', was released on the Game Boy Color in 1998. It was released for the Nintendo 3DS' Virtual Console in December 2011 without multiplayer functionality. The game was released on the Nintendo Classics service in February 2023. Gameplay In terms of gameplay, the Game Boy version of ''Tetris'' is similar to the versions that were released on other platforms at the time. A pseudorandom sequence of tetromino shapes, composed of four square blocks each, fall down the playing field, which is 10 blocks wide by 18 blocks high. The object of the game is to manipulate th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Pajitnov
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian-American computer engineer and video game designer. 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). 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. 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; the Soviet Union had disintegrated by 1991. Early life Pajitnov was born to Russian parents who were both writers. His father was an art critic and his mother was a journalist who wrote for both newspapers and a film magazine. It was through his parents that Pajitnov gained e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)
''Tetris'' is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of ''Tetris'', a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems. ''Tetris'' received positive reviews overall, winning multiple Excellence in Software Awards, and would eventually sell over one million copies. Development ''Tetris'' was created by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. Pajitnov wanted to export ''Tetris'', but had no knowledge of the business world. His superiors in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union were not necessarily happy with the success of the game, since they had not intended such a creation from the research team. Furthermore, copyright law of the Soviet Union created a state monopoly on import and export of copyrighted works, and the Soviet researchers were not allowed to sell their creations. Pajitnov asked his superv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullet-Proof Software
Blue Planet Software Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher founded by Henk Rogers in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1996. The company was founded as the successor to Bullet-Proof Software Inc. (BPS), founded in 1983 by Rogers in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ..., which closed on 22 February 2001. Rogers' daughter, Maya Rogers, became CEO in 2014. In October 2020, Blue Planet Software Inc. was rolled into The Tetris Company. List of games References External linksBlue Planet Software, Inc. page [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektronorgtechnica
Elektronorgtechnica (also spelled ''Electronorgtechnica'', ), better known abbreviated as ELORG (Элорг), was a state-owned organization with a monopoly on the import and export of computer support and hardware and software in the Soviet Union. It was controlled by the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1971 to 1989. The company was associated with the export of Soviet design calculators, Electronika being one brand that was exported, rebranding them as ELORG products. Elorg also marketed the Agat computer, and imported IBM computers into the Soviet Union, starting with the IBM System/360 Model 50 in 1971. Robert Maxwell pressured Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to cancel the contract between Elorg and Nintendo concerning the rights to the game franchise ''Tetris''. In 1991, as the Soviet Union was being dissolved, Elorg was turned into a private business by its director, Nikolai Belikov. Elorg was sold to The Tetris Company in January 2005 for $15 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Rogers
Henk Rogers is a Dutch-born American video game designer and entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game '' The Black Onyx'', securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game ''Tetris'' on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (and later Blue Planet Software) and The Tetris Company, which licenses the ''Tetris'' trademark. He was instrumental in resolving licensing disputes that brought ''Tetris'' to the Game Boy. Today, he is managing director of The Tetris Company. Early life In 1972 Henk Rogers graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. He later relocated to Hawaii, where he pursued studies in Computer Science at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. While studying at the University, Henk met his future wife, Akemi. He followed her to Japan, her home country, and after three extended visits, they married in 1977 and settled down there; they lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Best-selling Video Game Franchises
The list of best-selling video game franchises shows sales or shipments of at least twenty million copies each. Unless otherwise stated, numbers indicate worldwide unit sales, ordered alphabetically. The exception are those specifying shipments, which have lower precedence than sales. Franchise sales include expansion packs even though they are not full video games. Free-to-play game downloads including free mobile games and microtransactions do not figure into sales or shipment figures. Video game franchises that have generated the highest overall media revenue from games and other media and merchandise are at the list of highest-grossing media franchises. Best-selling individual video games are at the list of best-selling video games. Arcade video game sales are at the list of highest-grossing arcade games. ''Mario'', which includes ''Donkey Kong is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Boy
The is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards. Following the success of the Game & Watch single-game handhelds, Nintendo developed the Game Boy to be more like a portable Video game console, console, with interchangeable cartridges. The concept proved highly successful, and the Game Boy family, Game Boy line became a cultural icon of the 1990s and early 2000s. The Game Boy was designed by the Nintendo Research & Development 1 team, led by Gunpei Yokoi and Satoru Okada. The device features a dot-matrix display, a D-pad, four game buttons, a single speaker, and uses Game Boy Game Pak, Game Pak cartridges. Its two-toned gray design included black, blue, and magenta accents, with softly rounded corners and a distinctive curved bottom-right edge. At launch in Japan it was sold as a standalone console, but in North America and Europe it came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
