TECHNOLOGY - Oct. 24, 1996
Times Staff and Wire Reports
Tetris Creator Joins Microsoft: Alexey Pajitnov, who conceived the computer game Tetris while living in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, joined Microsoft’s games group. He is a co-owner of the Tetris Co. and will continue that work, Microsoft said, while working for Microsoft to develop a new series of computer mind-teasers and puzzles. Tetris, in which players try to neatly stack a perpetual cascade of cubes, has sold more than 40 million copies. Pajitnov also created the games Welltris, Hatris, Faces, Knight Move, Elfish, and Fire and Ice.
