Phi for Fools » online games http://www.mayabaratz.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Interview With the Original Creator of Tetris http://www.mayabaratz.com/2009/06/18/interview-with-the-original-creator-of-tetris/ http://www.mayabaratz.com/2009/06/18/interview-with-the-original-creator-of-tetris/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:02:39 +0000 Maya Baratz http://www.mayabaratz.com/?p=107 It’s been 25 years since the now-staple game, Tetris, was developed. Alexey Pajitnov, now 54, chats about the creation of his brainchild, which was (naturally) something of a side project as he was working on his research in artificial intelligence in the Soviet Academy of Sciences. If you think claiming royalties in the US is complicated, try doing it in the Soviet Union. In 1984.

On the Media Podcast: Interview With the Creator of Tetris

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