(1953-12-24) 24 December 1953 (age 70)[citation needed]
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation(s)
Video game designer, entrepreneur
Children
Maya Rogers
Website
henkrogers.com
Henk Brouwer Rogers (born 24 December 1953) is a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur of partial Indonesian descent.[1][2] He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The Tetris Company, which licenses the Tetris trademark. He was instrumental in resolving licensing disputes that brought Tetris to the Game Boy. Today, he is managing director of The Tetris Company.[3]
^"The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers". Sramana Mitra. 16 September 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
^"Henk B. Rogers' Page". TechHui. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
Henk Brouwer Rogers (born 24 December 1953) is a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur of partial Indonesian descent. He is known for producing Japan's...
development of the Tetris brand. Rogers was educated in Japan before moving to the United States with her family. Her father, HenkRogers, was a video game developer...
is based in Nevada and is owned by Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and HenkRogers. The company is the exclusive licensee of Tetris Holding LLC, the company...
(2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, and as HenkRogers in the biopic Tetris (2023). Egerton was born in Birkenhead on 10 November...
by HenkRogers in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1996. The company was founded as the successor to Bullet-Proof Software Inc. (BPS), founded in 1983 by Rogers in...
rights reverted to Pajitnov, who co-founded the Tetris Company with HenkRogers to manage licensing. In Tetris, players complete lines by moving differently...
Pajitnov founded The Tetris Company alongside Dutch video game designer HenkRogers. Pajitnov did not receive royalties from Tetris prior to this time, despite...
relation to the Tetris video game series, leading Tetris Company co-founder HenkRogers to regret giving Nintendo the license to use the name. Both Panel de...
in Japan, developed by Bullet-Proof Software, with development led by HenkRogers. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801, and ported to several...
Awards. In January 2006, Arakawa co-founded Tetris Online, Inc. with HenkRogers and Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, which developed various games for...
of the day. On the same day, Tetris co-founders Alexey Pajitnov and HenkRogers met with Gibson over a video call, calling his playthrough an "amazing...
Blue Startups is a Hawaii-based accelerator company co-founded by HenkRogers, Maya Rogers and Chenoa Farnsworth in 2012. They created it to help startup...
game, intending it to be the flagship title for the Game Boy. However, HenkRogers brought the Soviet Union-made game, Tetris, to the attention of Nintendo...
design was inspired by a story that video game designer HenkRogers had told him, which involved Rogers paddling to the middle of a lake at night during a...
creator Alexey Pajitnov and businessman HenkRogers. Elorg was a 50 percent owner in the company until Rogers and Pajitnov bought ELORG's remaining rights...
Mario Land was planned as the portable console's showcase title until HenkRogers brought Tetris to Nintendo of America and convinced Minoru Arakawa that...
making it difficult to use. Around 2012, Mizuguchi began discussing with HenkRogers, the founder of The Tetris Company which now owns the rights to Tetris...
2015. "The Story of Tetris: HenkRogers". Sramana Mitra. September 16, 2009. Retrieved March 8, 2023. "Henk B. Rogers' Page". TechHui. Retrieved March...
Gary "Eggsy" Unwin Robin Hood, Robin Hood Rocketman, Elton John Tetris, HenkRogers Winston Duke Black Panther, M'Baku Avengers: Infinity War, M'Baku Avengers:...
Samantha Win, actress, martial artist, stunt woman and wushu taolu athlete HenkRogers, founder of Bullet Proof software and The Tetris Company (half Dutch)...
sale to Spectrum Holobyte. In April, he appeared on a podcast alongside HenkRogers, the co-founder of Tetris, and Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of the game...
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