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<h2 id="tetris">Tetris</h2> <p>ELORG was responsible for the licensing of the popular <a href="/facts/Video_game/vmTdNASJ">video game</a> series <i><a href="/facts/Tetris/djLfTK0n">Tetris</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> <i>Tetris</i> was written by salaried programmers at the <a href="/facts/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences/RuUqhtFb">Soviet Academy of Sciences</a>, which was not allowed to carry out commercial activities directly.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> As the game was owned by the state, all rights to the game worldwide were handled by ELORG.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> In 1996 ELORG was reportedly a privatised Russian company which retained the rights to the <i><a href="/facts/Tetris/djLfTK0n">Tetris</a></i> <a href="/facts/Trademark/B23H8IS0">trademark</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p><p>ELORG was a partner in <a href="/facts/The_Tetris_Company/zxnJw7nH">The Tetris Company</a> which licenses the <i>Tetris</i> name to game companies, along with <i>Tetris</i> creator <a href="/facts/Alexey_Pajitnov/JJVdI5GG">Alexey Pajitnov</a> and businessman <a href="/facts/Henk_Rogers/cJ1YuBQf">Henk Rogers</a>. 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