When recreation designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris on the 1988 Las Vegas Shopper Electronics Present, he instantly knew it was particular. “It was simply the proper recreation,” he recollects. “It regarded so easy, so rudimentary, however I wished to play it many times and once more … There was no different recreation demo that ever did that to me.”
Rogers is now co-owner of the Tetris Firm, which manages and licenses the Tetris model. Over the previous 30 years, he has turn into virtually as well-known as the sport itself. The escapades surrounding his deal to purchase its distribution rights from Russian company Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) had been dramatised in an Apple TV+ movie starring Taron Egerton. “I prompt that Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves ought to play me, however apparently they had been means too outdated,” Rogers says.
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