Kidbaby rose to public consciousness first as a content creator before delivering a performance strong enough to earn an AMVCA nomination in one of Nollywood’s biggest commercial films. Married to Nigerian musician Rybeena. The project was Oversabi Aunty, Toyin Abraham’s directorial debut that crossed the one-billion-naira mark at the box office and ranked among the…
Angel Unigwe belongs to the small group of Nigerian performers who built substantial careers from a young age and then successfully made the transition into adult roles. She accumulated experience across television and film at an age when most peers were still at school, gaining technical comfort with cameras, marks and the rhythm of production…
Sophia Chisom Ikemba was born on 12 May 1999 in Port Harcourt and hails from Nnewi in Anambra State. She began posting simple, makeup-free photographs online, images that unexpectedly took off. A manager encouraged comedy sketches, and the character Soso the Pure Water Seller was born in 2019. The street-girl persona, selling sachet water with…
Maya Rogers, daughter of Henk Rogers, is now at the forefront of the modern management of the Tetris trademark. Ms. Rogers, in her capacity as an executive director at The Tetris Company and other organizations, is currently involved in the development of licensing strategies, as well as adapting and protecting the brand in a competitive…
Dmitry Pavlovsky was employed at the Academy of Sciences Computing Centre, where Alexey Pajitnov was also working, as a computer engineer. He was one of the people to contribute to the early PC version of Tetris, teaming up with the teenage intern Vadim Gerasimov, who helped add points and other essential features, ensuring its completeness…
Minoru Arakawa was the president of Nintendo of America at the time of the deal, and he worked closely with the Kyoto headquarters as well as external companies to realize the importance of launching the Game Boy handheld with a successful game such as Tetris. Arakawa recognized the need for a software title that would…
Hiroshi Yamauchi was the president of Nintendo for many years and the one who made the commercial decision regarding the Tetris acquisition. When the opportunity came, he simply approved the deal that made Roger’s puzzle game available with Nintendo’s handheld game console. Tetris and Game Boy went on to enjoy unprecedented success as the many…
Nikolai Belikov worked for Elektronorgtechnica, the Soviet state-owned enterprise that imported and exported computer software and hardware. He and his colleagues were the ones to whom foreign publishers turned when they wanted to acquire rights to Tetris. Besides, Belikov was one of the participants in the game’s complex licensing negotiations in Moscow at the end…
Robert Stein was a software salesman based in Hungary when he first learned about Tetris, via unofficial channels that were distributing copies of the game outside of the Soviet bloc. Figuring that it would be a good product to market in the West, he pursued deals to sell it – and was confused by the…
Vladimir Pokhilko was a clinical psychologist who got involved with Tetris through his friend Alexey Pajitnov and was one of the first people to realize how addictive it was. He appears to have been largely supportive and enthusiastic about the development of the game, believing that its simple mechanics were surprisingly effective in provoking addiction….