Company:Elektronorgtechnica
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| Industry | Import/export of electronics |
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| Fate | Sold to The Tetris Company in 2005 |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Defunct | 2005 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR (until 1989) |
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Elektronorgtechnica (also spelled Electronorgtechnica, Russian: Всесою́зное Объедине́ние «Электро́норгтехника»), better known abbreviated as ELORG (Элорг), was a state-owned organization with a monopoly on the import and export of computer support and hardware and software in the Soviet Union.[1] It was controlled by the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1971 to 1989.[2]
The company was associated with the export of Soviet design calculators, Electronika being one brand that was exported, rebranding them as ELORG products.[3] Elorg also marketed the Agat computer,[4] and imported IBM computers into the Soviet Union, starting with the IBM System/360 Model 50 in 1971.[5]
Robert Maxwell pressured Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to cancel the contract between Elorg and Nintendo concerning the rights to the game Tetris.[6]
In 1991, as the Soviet Union was being dissolved, Elorg was turned into a private business by its director, Nikolai Belikov.[7] Elorg was sold to The Tetris Company in January 2005 for $15 million.[8]
Tetris
ELORG was responsible for the licensing of the popular video game Tetris.[9] Tetris was written by salaried programmers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which was not allowed to carry out commercial activities directly.[1] As the game was owned by the state, all rights to the game worldwide were handled by ELORG.[10] In 1996 ELORG was reportedly a privatised Russian company which retained the rights to the Tetris trademark.[11][12]
ELORG was a partner in The Tetris Company which licenses the Tetris name to game companies, along with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and businessman Henk Rogers. Elorg was a 50 percent owner in the company until Rogers and Pajitnov bought ELORG's remaining rights around 2005.[13][14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Интеллектуальная собственность / Тетрис". Kommersant. 12 September 1995. http://kommersant.ru/doc/11471.
- ↑ "Список министерств и ведомств, их структурных подразделений и подведомственных организаций, документы которых переданы". Economy.gov.ru. http://economy.gov.ru/wps/wcm/connect/cf224939-c861-4a3d-8d37-1a11d3bb36ca/archlist2016.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=cf224939-c861-4a3d-8d37-1a11d3bb36ca.
- ↑ Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web - Export and Foreign , accessed June 1, 2006
- ↑ "New Chips". Byte Magazine 9 (12). 1984. https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-11/1984_11_BYTE_09-12_New_Chips#page/n135/mode/1up. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ↑ "Чаепитие в честь 20 лет IBM на российском рынке". 7 September 1992. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6669.
- ↑ Ichbiah, Daniel (1997) (in fr). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo (1st ed.). Pix'N Love Editions. p. 95. ISBN 2266087630.
- ↑ Books, Worth (2017) (in en). Summary and Analysis of The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World: Based on the Book by Dan Ackerman. Open Road Media. p. 30. ISBN 9781504008716. https://books.google.com/books?id=FpmxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT30.
- ↑ "CASE NO. 12-2-23972-0 SEA". p. 5. http://www.summitlaw.com/uploads/pdf/2014-07-17-belikov-memorandum-opinion.pdf.
- ↑ Atari HQ: Tetris History , accessed June 1, 2006
- ↑ "Tetris Story" by Vadim Gerasimov, accessed April 15, 2007
- ↑ PR Newswire - "Tetris Inventor Gets His Due in Historic Russia/US Joint Venture" , accessed June 1, 2006
- ↑ The Tetris Taxonomy - "Putting the puzzle pieces back together: Alexey Pajitnov has a new game plan for Tetris." , accessed June 1, 2006
- ↑ Hartley, Matt (2009-06-06). "Rock around the blocks - The Globe and Mail". Toronto. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/rock-around-the-blocks/article1171379/page2/.
- ↑ Remo, Chris (2009-09-10). "The Man Who Won Tetris". Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132518/the_man_who_won_tetris.php.
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