Tetris (Game Boy) longer than his or her opponent. Each player plays on their own Game Boy, with the two consoles connected via the Game Link Cable (A game pak for each player). During gameplay, when a player scores a Double, Triple or Tetris, one or more incomplete rows of blocks are added to the bottom of their opponent's stack, causing it to rise. In 1984, Soviet Academy of Sciences researchers Alexey Pajitnov, Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov created "Tetris" out of a desire to create a two-player puzzle game, and the game spread commercially among computers. In 1988, computer game publisher Henk
Alexey Pajitnov MSN Mind Aerobics and MSN Games groups. Pajitnov's new, enhanced version of "Hexic", "Hexic HD", was included with every new Xbox 360 Premium package. On 18 August 2005, WildSnake Software announced that Pajitnov would be collaborating with them to release a new line of puzzle games. Pajitnov's son, Dmitri, died in a skiing accident on Mount Rainier in 2017. In 1996, GameSpot named him as the fourth most influential computer game developer of all time. On 7 March 2007, he received the Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award. The award was given for pioneering the casual games market. On