Talk:Alexey Pajitnov

message: His name is correcly translitierated Pazhitnov, not Pajitnov.--68.170.86.111 18:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then why does the screen shot of the first PC port of Tetris say "Game by A. Pajitnov and V. Gerasimov", and why does the Tetris DS copyright notice say "Game Design by Alexey Pajitnov"? Clearly, the variant transliteration where <j> represents the Ж is the one he prefers. (The article on the ʒ sound in question claims that Ido and a few Romance languages of Europe also use <j> for [ʒ].) Can we dig up his immigration papers to see which spelling the U.S. government prefers? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 23:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifically, what can we learn from the WP guideline WP:CYR#Conventional names? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 18:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Question: if he prefers Pajitnov, why don't we use that instead? BirdValiant 08:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably someone forgot to cross-check what appears to be a "conventional name" against reliable sources. I've changed the text of the article to put this on people's radar, and if nobody objects before January 1, I'll finish the move.ж --Damian Yerrick (☎) 23:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, cool. If I was important enough to have a biography on Wikipedia, I'd definitely want my name to be spelled correctly, even if it is against "normal transliteration." BirdValiant 05:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  zh not j 

message: don't have the link handy, but i think some website's advertising alexey made a game, "dwice"? ( Anonymous comment added 12:16, March 31, 2006 by User:72.150.8.234)
: added it, i've just played it, its a new game that in some ways resembles Tetris. The publisher claims Alexey designed it. (It's published as "Alexey's Dwice") http://www.wildsnake.com/arcade/dw/ --Aditu 11:38, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  dwice 

message: "Kight Moves" was released from Nintendo on Famicom Disk System at 1990 in Japan.(see List_of_Famicom_Disk_System_games) Probably this is first release of the title.
61.214.6.145 11:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kight Moves 

message: he's not american, he's russian. you yankees must own everything, uh?
:He lives and works in USA for, among other companies, the Hawaii-based Tetris Company. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 02:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: sure, so every mexican or puertorican guy working at a mcdonald is american? I dont think so based on my last time in the usa. he's russian, unless there's some document proofing he's been naturalized as an american. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.21.167.232 (talk) 21:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Proofing? lol, wow, I wouldn't be staking any claims on nationalities if I were you. 134.50.3.202 (talk) 15:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality? 

message: I have removed BreakThru! from the list of works. Pajitnov had nothing to do with it, it was designed by Steve Fry. Spectrum Holobyte just put a "Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, introduces" note on the box and on the title screen of the SNES version, but that was purely marketing. — Graf Bobby 12:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BreakThru! 

message: While this is true, he was still compensated by the government for his contribution.  List of goods were brought into the CC, and everyone was allowed to choose a specific amount of these goods from the list.  Some time later, the chosen goods were given to those who requested them - some asked for American VHS tapes, some asked for clothes, etc. I'm not sure if this is relevant in this specific article, but it is what happened. 134.173.38.150 07:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Pajitnov did not receive royalties' 

message: The article says he currently lives in the United States, but it also says he currently lives in Costa Rica. Which one is correct? Herzliyya (talk) 03:19, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia's policy is that truth doesn't matter; the verifiable claim is always correct. Claims with citations are more likely to be verifiable. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 00:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States or Costa Rica? 

message: Part of the article reads"...who developed the most popular game in the history of mankind".  I've placed a Citation Needed tag on this.
I consider it obvious that Tetris is ONE OF THE most popular games in the history of mankind, but a claim that it is THE most popular game in the history of mankind seems dubious to me.  I think a citation is needed if this is going to be presented as a given fact.  It would probably also help to define "popular" in this case, as some games have more people who enjoying watching a game in progress than people who like participating in said game, and some games have more people who enjoy participating than watching.
--James-Chin (talk) 06:53, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tetris is THE most popular game in the history of mankind? 

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message: His signature is in this video at 15:35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jA53IkHZJg (title: "Confessions of a Tetris Addict"). We should add that signature to the box at the top right (like this page: John Hancock). --NoToleranceForIntolerance (talk) 09:08, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: National Geographic has him in a documentary called 1989: The Year That Made Us series in The Dawn of Digital  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.36.70.128 (talk) 20:55, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another credit source