Via NEXT generation:

on a dreary and deserted Sunday morning: it seems a strange time and place to be meeting one of the most revered figures in game design history. But the café is snug, and Alexey Pajitnov, with his clipped beard, neat trainers and buttoned-up polo shirt, seems more like a favorite physics teacher than a genius, or a star.

Pajitnov is in Nottingham to appear at the GameCity festival, and to promote nothing in particular. Later in the day he’ll attend a screening of Tetris: From Russia With Love, the 2004 BBC documentary focusing on his creation of the universally popular puzzle game while at the academic Moscow Computer Centre, and the tortuous wrangling over it between communist Russia and the corporate west. He’ll sit through it all, reminding himself of events, chuckling to see his friends on the screen, and wincing at his adorably thick Russian accent (seemingly undiluted by more than a decade living in Seattle).

If Tetris was ever a part of your life, you’re going to enjoy the rest of this interview. click above to read more.

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