Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed "Tetris" while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center. He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company. Pajitnov was born on 14 March 1956 in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He studied applied mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He then went on to work on speech recognition at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre where he would develop Tetris.
Pandora's Box (1999 video game) piece goes if the player needs help figuring it out. Free puzzle tokens solve puzzles for the player if needed. A free puzzle token is awarded for every ten puzzles solved. The game includes the following puzzle types: "Pandora's Box" won GameSpot's "Puzzles and Classics Game of the Year" award. The editors wrote that it "proved that he [Pajitnov] was more than just the king of the simple game." It was a runner-up for "Computer Games Strategy Plus"s 1999 "Classic Game of the Year" award and "Computer Gaming World"s 1999 "Puzzle/Classics Game of the Year" award. It was PC Data's