When he saw the Tetris video game created by Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov at the 1988 Las Vegas show, entrepreneur Henk Rogers immediately bought the rights to distribute the game in Japan, since Mirrorsoft already owned its distribution in the rest of the world. The shrewd businessman also managed to negotiate with Nintendo, and when they were about to release a revolutionary Game Boy device, Henk decided to go to Moscow himself to license the popular game to the new game system.