The licenser who acquired Tetris for Nintendo was visited by two intimidating KGB agents. The deal was signed for ten years, and Pajitnov barely made a ruble from his creation during that time.
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It was one of the first games acquired by the state-run Elektronorgtechnica (ELORG), which monopolized both imports and exports of software in the Soviet Union.
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With no idea of how to publish the game–and scared of the anti-Soviet concept of making money from it–Pajitnov ceded the game’s rights to the Soviet government, taking advantage of its recent socio-cultural evolution through perestroika.
The Soviet Union originally owned the rights to Tetris. Different developers in Hungary, Britain, the United States and beyond “discovered” Tetris around the same time due to “shareware” versions of the game–and they began to publish their interpretations whether Pajitnov knew it or not. Ownership of Tetris was hotly disputed for years, all because of rampant piracy. In the initial test run, bracket elements were used for the tetriminos themselves. As this video demonstrates, the original playing zone consisted of exclamation points, periods and slashes. The Elektronika 60 had no graphics capability–text was used to form its blocks. Vadim Gerasimov, who worked on the early game with him, wasn’t a fan of the name at all. With “tetra” as half of the title’s inspiration, Pajitnov derived the “is” from tennis, his preferred pastime. Its name also came from Pajitnov’s favorite sport. Tetrominoes, later known as “tetriminos” in the game, inspired the title Tetris. This provided Pajitnov’s game with five “free” shapes–the famous I, O, T, S and J formations – alongside mirrored versions of the S and J (Z and L). Pentominoes have five blocks, while tetrominoes have four. The name Tetris derives from the shapes chosen by Pajitnov. As a youngster, the mathematically minded Soviet scientist was a big fan of pentominoes–a tiling puzzle which used shapes that consisted of five blocks. Pajitnov’s inspiration came from a childhood hobby. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of 'Tetris', in 1990.
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