The heart of the new movie 'Tetris,' a retelling of how the massively popular video game came to be, lies with its two “heroes”: Henk Rogers and Alexey Pajitnov. The pair talked to LegsFrank about 30 years of friendship since the events in the movie.
’ licensing rights, ultimately scoring a killer deal with Nintendo to launch the Game Boy with Pajitnov’s puzzle game alongside it. Pajitnov, a humble engineer in the Soviet Union, was just happy that people found so much joy in his block-stacking, line-clearing time-hogger.
“In real life, even today, if we're in the same city every other day, we are having a bottle of wine,” said Rogers, of how the pair has maintained a friendship for nearly 40 years. “This is our tradition. And I lived in Seattle [where Pajitnov lives] for a year, so that was a lot of wine.”Rogers is the extroverted American to Pajitnov’s mild-mannered Russian, a dynamic that’s perhaps more of a treat to watch than evenitself.
It was ultimately to Pajitnov and Rogers’ mutual benefit that they worked together on getting Elorg to sign over the licensing rights for“During the time that I was there, I was breaking all kinds of laws by talking to people, and Alexey was breaking laws by talking to me,” Rogers explained of that fateful trip, which makes up the core of the film. Foreigners, especially American ones, had only just recently been allowed to visit the USSR, after all.
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