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Alexey Pajitnov (Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov) was born on 14 March, 1956 in Moscow, Russia, is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer, creator of the video game "Tetris". Discover Alexey Pajitnov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
| Popular As |
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov |
| Occupation |
Video game designer,Computer engineer |
| Age |
68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces |
| Born |
14 March, 1956 |
| Birthday |
14 March |
| Birthplace |
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality |
Russia |
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Alexey Pajitnov Height, Weight & Measurements
At 68 years old, Alexey Pajitnov height not available right now. We will update Alexey Pajitnov's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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| Parents |
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| Children |
Dmitri Pajitnov |
Alexey Pajitnov Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Alexey Pajitnov worth at the age of 68 years old? Alexey Pajitnov’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Russia. We have estimated
Alexey Pajitnov's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
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Under Review |
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Timeline
Pajitnov's son, Dmitri, died in a skiing accident on Mount Rainier in 2017.
On 2015, Pajitnov won the Bizkaia Award at the Fun & Serious Game Festival
In 2012, IGN included Pajitnov on their list of 5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders, calling him "the ultimate video game one-hit wonder."
On 24 June 2009, he received the honorary award at the LARA - Der Deutsche Games Award in Cologne, Germany.
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 18 August 2005, WildSnake Software announced that Pajitnov would be collaborating with them to release a new line of puzzle games.
He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company.
He was employed by Microsoft from October 1996 until 2005. While there he worked on the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, 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.
In 1996, GameSpot named him as the fourth most influential computer game developer of all time.
Pajitnov, together with Vladimir Pokhilko, moved to the United States in 1991 and later, in 1996, founded The Tetris Company with Henk Rogers, which finally allowed him to collect royalties from his game. He helped design the puzzles in the Super NES versions of Yoshi's Cookie and designed the game Pandora's Box, which incorporates more traditional jigsaw-style puzzles.
As a child, he was a fan of puzzles and played with pentomino toys. In creating Tetris, he drew inspiration from these toys. Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1984. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986.
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 16 April 1955) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed Tetris while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center.
Pajitnov was born on 16 April 1955 in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He studied applied mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He then went on to work on speech recognition at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre where he would develop the first version of Tetris on an Electronika 60 computer in 1984.
