Alexey Pajitnov 24 June 2009, he received the honorary award at the LARA - Der Deutsche Games Award in Cologne, Germany. In 2012, IGN included Pajitnov on their list of 5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders, calling him "the ultimate video game one-hit wonder." 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
The Legend of Zelda (video game) not decades". In 2011, Nintendo celebrated the game's 25th anniversary in a similar vein to the "Super Mario Bros." 25th anniversary celebration the previous year. This celebration included a free mailout Club Nintendo offer of the "Ocarina of Time" soundtrack to owners of the 3DS version of that particular game, the first digital for Nintendo eShop release of Link's Awakening DX, special posters that are mailed out as rewards through Club Nintendo, and a special stage inspired by the original "Legend of Zelda" in the video game "Super Mario 3D Land" for the Nintendo 3DS. In 2015, translator, localizer, and