Henk Rogers

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Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software, Inc. played the main role in facilitating the licensed computer game Tetris directly from the Russian Government organisation ELORG for handheld games and consoles, beating Robert Maxwell's empire to the license rights of the game. He discovered Tetris during a game show in Las Vegas in 1988^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}. Later on he became friends and partners with the game's Russian author Alexey Pajitnov.

In 1996 he founded the Tetris Company.

External links

• [Founded company, Blue Planet Software]
• [Interview with Planet Gamecube]

 

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