Alexey Pajitnov: Ackerman’s Main Three

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2023-03-29

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HIST490 - America and the History of Video Games

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Tetris
Alexey Pajitnov
Nintendo
Soviet Union

Abstract

This paper uses Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman to look into Alexey Pajitnov's life during his creation of Tetris. It uses three main points, Pajitnov’s early interest in puzzles, computers, and mathematics, the release of Tetris in 1984, and Pajitnov's move to the United States to explain how Tetris became the game it is today. These three points in Pajitnov's life seem to explain how Tetris gained its fame.