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
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