What game did Alexey Pajitnov's partner produce?
Henk Rogers Henk Rogers (born 1953) is a Dutch 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 "Tetris" on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of The Tetris Company which licenses the "Tetris" trademark. Nowadays, he serves as Managing Director of The Tetris Company.
Tetris Tetris (Russian: Те́трис , pronounced ] ) is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix "tetra-" (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.