{"id":18793,"date":"2025-05-12T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/it-was-just-the-perfect-game-henk-rogers-on-buying-tetris-and-foiling-the-kgb\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:37:30","slug":"it-was-just-the-perfect-game-henk-rogers-on-buying-tetris-and-foiling-the-kgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/it-was-just-the-perfect-game-henk-rogers-on-buying-tetris-and-foiling-the-kgb\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was just the perfect game\u2019: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew it was special. \u201cIt was just the perfect game,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt looked so simple, so rudimentary, but I wanted to play it again and again and again \u2026 There was no other game demo that ever did that to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers is now co-owner of the Tetris Company, which manages and licenses the Tetris brand. Over the past 30 years, he has become almost as famous as the game itself. The escapades surrounding his deal to buy its distribution rights from Russian agency Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) were dramatised in an Apple TV+ film<\/a> starring Taron Egerton. \u201cI suggested that Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves should play me, but apparently they were way too old,\u201d Rogers says.<\/p>\n

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\nThe man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning<\/p>\n

When game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew it was special. \u201cIt was just the perfect game,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt looked so simple, so rudimentary, but I wanted to play it again and again and again \u2026 There was no other game demo that ever did that to me.\u201d
\nRogers is now co-owner of the Tetris Company, which manages and licenses the Tetris brand. Over the past 30 years, he has become almost as famous as the game itself. The escapades surrounding his deal to buy its distribution rights from Russian agency Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) were dramatised in an Apple TV+ film starring Taron Egerton. \u201cI suggested that Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves should play me, but apparently they were way too old,\u201d Rogers says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning When game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew …<\/p>\n

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