So, several days have passed since the publication of the pilot game. I don’t know how interesting it was for you, but nevertheless, thanks to everyone who voted and left their feedback.
Unfortunately, the first pancake turned out to be lumpy for me and I made a mistake in the text of the first clue and instead of the required April, many of you guessed July, thanks to Nonadoshi for your activity in the comments. The error has now been fixed. And I apologize for my carelessness.
Well, actually the answers and the logic of finding answers.
I think everyone quickly solved the puzzle and realized that we were talking about the author of the wonderful articles RoyalCheese. For the second time in 2022, he received a mower on April 26 for the blog Sounds of Mu. Music is deteriorating or it just seems so to us?
It was in April that the hero I dreamed of was born.
Hint – the word "Tennis".
Zinc alloy was mentioned in the RE 6 Collector’s Edition news. Zinc is the thirtieth element of the periodic table. On April 30, Katerina Krasnopolskaya released a video about the 2007 gaming year.
On March 7, 2007, our hero was awarded the Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award .
There were 9 videos in the “On Rewind” section.
Horse route 1. c3 2. e4 3. f2 4. h3 5. g5 6. f7 7.d8 8.e6 9.d4.
And accordingly the answer is “Microsoft”.
Required symbols OI-TJL-ZS
I think everyone remembered this wonderful moment https://bookmakersnotongamstop.co.uk/ from an equally wonderful game.
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov took on the flight "Tetris" on Game Boy July 1, 1993. Thus "Tetris" became first video game V space, thereby repeating the achievement of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, who became the first man in space. It was this last name in the news using the QR code that should have brought you one step closer to the correct answer.
In 2018, Kratos was recognized as the coolest character by the editors and readers of Stopgame.
Ivan Loev released 4 parts of the history of the Saints Row series. And if Kratos were asked about their number, he would answer "Tetra"
So, I was wished for Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov – outstanding Soviet and Russian programmer and game designer, known primarily as the creator of Tetris.
In general, Alexey Leonidovich had a hand in more than 20 projects
like most children of the 90s generation, I became acquainted with Tetris thanks to such Chinese miracle toys, not suspecting that its creator was our compatriot
Pajitnov was born in April 1956, according to Wiki and some sources, and in March of the same year, according to other sources.
In 1984, Alexey Leonidovich worked as a programmer at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the problems of artificial intelligence and speech recognition. To overcome them, it was necessary to solve puzzles and difficult tasks.
In general, Alexey has been interested in puzzles since childhood and, by the way, has retained this love to this day.
At the same moment, he became interested in Solomon Golomb’s “Pentamino” puzzle, popular in the USSR.
Pajitnov decided to transfer the game to the virtual world, but during development the concept underwent many changes, primarily related to the computing power of workstations, and in June 1984 a working version of Tetris appeared on the Elektronika 60 computer.
When coming up with the name of the game, Pajitnov combined the Greek word "tetra", meaning the number prefix "four", with the word "tennis", since it was his favorite game.
Further, one could talk about the plight of a Soviet engineer, about the difficulties of Tetris entering the international market, about the connection of the game with Matthias Rust, about simply piggy piracy and patronage of Nintendo, but this is such a huge and immense material that it deserves a whole series of articles and a good film adaptation.
I’ll just write what the reviewers of that time thought about Tetris
“Another “surprisingly simple, addictive, abstract puzzle” doesn’t excite me, but its origins are interesting. It was invented by a thirty-year-old scientist from the USSR Academy of Sciences. The code was written on a personal computer by a teenage student from Moscow University.".
"I’m warning you. Tetris addiction reaches frightening proportions. For all its simplicity, the game forces you to chase more and more points; Only the Reset button can save you".
“There are not many games that are so exciting that you play them even in your sleep, and Tetris is one of them, at least for me. I dreamed about figures from the game all night, I didn’t get enough sleep and decided not to play this game for at least two days. I can’t give a higher recommendation.".
Impressive, isn’t it??! But let’s return to the hero of the story.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Pajitnov moved to the United States with the company AnimaTek, which he founded in 1988. In the same year, he founded another company with the self-explanatory name “Tetris”. In October 1996, he moved to Microsoft, where he developed puzzles Pandora’s Box. Left Microsoft in 2005.
Microsoft did not hesitate to resort to additional PR – the games included the line “from the creator of Tetris”
On March 7, 2007, Pajitnov was deservedly awarded the Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award, as you might guess, for creating one of the most popular games of all time (Nintendo Tetris alone brought in, according to various estimates, from 2 to 3 billion dollars in net profit, taking into account all the ports, versions and licensing fees).
What I wanted to say in the end. The history of Tetris and Pajitnov, as I said above, is much more interesting and extensive than a couple of hastily written paragraphs. There was a place for everything – scandals, trials, triumphs and records.
For more than 30 years, people of all ages have been playing this simple but extremely addictive puzzle game (Tetris championships are still held). .
Tetris has long crossed all conceivable boundaries – it is studied in colleges, used in various types of therapies, furniture and entire parks are made based on it. It’s hard to find a person who doesn’t know about this game. And the situation is completely opposite with Alexey Pajitnov. And it’s a little unfair!
I hope you found it interesting and sometimes educational. That’s all. Thank you for your attention.
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