Alexey Pajitnov As a child, he was a fan of puzzles and played with pentomino toys. In creating "Tetris," he drew inspiration from these toys. Pajitnov created "Tetris" with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1984. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986. Pajitnov also created a sequel to "Tetris", entitled "Welltris", which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment where the player sees the playing area from above. "Tetris" was licensed and managed by Soviet company ELORG, which had a monopoly on the import and export of computer
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