Henk Rogers
Henk Rogers ( born 1953 in the Netherlands) is a Dutch computer game developer and entrepreneur.
Life and work
Rogers came up with eleven years in New York, where he attended high school before he studied computer science at the University of Hawaii. In the late 1970s he moved to Japan and founded in 1983 with Bullet -Proof Software his first company. He then developed with The Black Onyx, the first Japanese computer role-playing game. Rogers is the founder and owner of the computer games company, Blue Planet Software. The company Blue Lava Wireless LLC also founded by him, he sold in 2005 for about 137 million U.S. dollars in Jamdat. His company, The Tetris Company sold the rights to Tetris.
Tetris
Especially in appearance Rogers joined the battle for the granting of licenses for the computer game Tetris, which he won for his company.
He discovered the game in 1988 at a computer fair at the booth of Atari and brought it to Japan to Nintendo where you started developing its own version and sold it. His friendship with Alexei Leonidovich Paschitnow, the creator of Tetris, enabled him to acquire the license for game consoles ( this license secured the highest revenues ) by the then Russian state-owned enterprises ELORG. In 1990, he helped Paschitnow going to emigrate from Russia to the United States, where he founded a computer graphics company with AnimaTek. In 1996, the rights to Tetris back to Paschitnow and Rogers moved from Japan to Hawaii, where he founded the company Blue Planet Software.