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Henk Rogers
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Henk Rogers is a video game designer and entrepreneur, best known for winning a license for the handheld and console versions of the computer game Tetris from the Soviet Government organisation ELORG, beating Robert Maxwell's empire in the process. A personal computer Game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a Video game played on a Personal computer, rather Tetris (Тетрис is a Video puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 1985 while working for the Dorodnicyn A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Elektronorgtechnica (also spelled Electronorgtechnica) better known abbreviated as ELORG, is the former Soviet Ministry of Software and Hardware Export Ian Robert Maxwell MC ( June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian born British Media proprietor

Rogers was born in the Netherlands and lived in New York City from the age of eleven. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The City of New York He attended Stuyvesant High School where he got his first taste of computer programming. Stuyvesant High School ( IPA: /ˈstаɪvɛsənt/ commonly referred to as Stuy ( IPA: /ˈstаɪ/ is a New York City Public high school He then studied Computer Science and Role Playing Games at the University of Hawaii. The University of Hawaii, formally the University of Hawaii System and popularly known as UH, is a public co-educational college and university system that confers

During the late 1970s, he moved to Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. In 1983 he designed and developed the first Role Playing Game in Japan. He also established his own publishing company Bullet-Proof Software to bring The Black Onyx to market. Blue Planet Software, formerly known as Bullet Proof Software, is a video game developer In 1986, Rogers published his first Nintendo game kyuroban Igo on the Japanese 8-bit Famicom, called the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US. The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit Video game console that was released by The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit Video game console that was released by His second Nintendo game was Super Black Onyx for which he commissioned world famous graphic artist Roger Dean to do the cover art. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on It would be the first of many joint projects for Henk Rogers and Roger Dean.

Rogers discovered Tetris during a game show in Las Vegas in 1988. Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) At the time, the game was being distributed in several countries under the color of a master license agreement which the original licensee had not honored. Rogers went to Moscow (without an invitation) to see if he could obtain rights to distribute the game. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Two other companies were simultaneously bidding for the same rights. Rogers brought Nintendo on board and secured the exclusive rights to market Tetris on video game consoles. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on Nintendo successfully used this grant to squeeze its rival Atari out of the market, as Atari had sought to market Tetris based on the original (invalid) license. Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972.

During the negotiations in Moscow, Rogers also became friends with the game's Russian author Alexey Pajitnov. Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (ru Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов regularly Aleksei Leonidovich Pazhitnovborn In 1990, he helped Pajitnov move to the United States and set up a new company, AnimaTek, to develop new computer graphic technologies. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar)

In 1996, the rights for Tetris reverted to Pajitnov. Rogers moved from Japan to Hawaii, where he founded Blue Planet Software to manage the intellectual property rights to Tetris and The Tetris Company, a Delaware company that exclusively licenses Tetris. Blue Planet Software, formerly known as Bullet Proof Software, is a video game developer The Tetris Company LLC, aka TTC is based in Hawaii and is managed by Henk Rogers.

Rogers founded Blue Lava Wireless in 2002 to develop mobile gaming software. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The company was sold to Jamdat in 2005, along with a license to the mobile game rights to Tetris. EA Mobile is an American video game development studio of the publisher Electronic Arts (EA Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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