A newly launched interview video exhibits footage of the creators of Tetris and the Rubik’s Dice assembly for the primary time.
Alexey Pajitnov and Ernő Rubik are answerable for two of probably the most well-known puzzles within the fashionable period, however the pair had by no means met till December 2025, after they appeared collectively on the OXO Video Recreation Museum in Spain.
Now a brand new video by Bandai-owned Japanese toy producer Megahouse exhibits the second the pair met for the primary time ever, and their subsequent dialogue about their creations.
“I’m so enthusiastic about assembly Mr Rubik immediately,” Pajitnov says close to the beginning of the video. “I’ve been obsessed for years with the Dice, and I dreamed to fulfill him, however lastly it occurred.
The video exhibits the pair assembly at a Spanish café and shaking fingers. Pajitnov says: “Mr Ernő, its very good to fulfill you. So lengthy a time we’ve by no means met, that’s unusual.”
They then sit at a desk and talk about their respective video games, with Rubik’s explaining to Pajitnov that he initially designed a 2×2 dice earlier than altering it to the now iconic 3×3 dice.
“I really like the type of the Dice by itself as a result of it’s a quite simple and really clear house relation,” Rubik explains to Pajtinov, including: “The Dice modified my life in some ways, and I’m positive that occurred with you as nicely [with Tetris].”
Pajitnov replies: “After I present my recreation to everyone, folks get it like ‘that’. I’m fairly positive the Dice is much more simple to know.”
The video then exhibits Pajitnov asking Rubik to take a selfie with him, “in any other case my spouse will kill me”.
It then ends with Pajitnov praising the Rubik’s Dice once more, saying: “If I might put one thing as proof of human civilization on an interstellar house object, that will be one of many 10 objects I might undoubtedly placed on it.”
When requested if he would come with Tetris too, Pajitnov says “ehhhhh”, and seems uncertain.
The Tetris and Rubik manufacturers just lately got here collectively for a collaborative puzzle referred to as Rubik’s Tetris. The puzzle seems much like a Rubik’s Dice, however as a substitute of turning it till each face has blocks of the identical color, gamers have to show it till all six Tetriminos are seen on the dice.
In late 2024, Digital Eclipse launched Tetris Endlessly, an ‘interactive museum’ containing a compilation of basic Tetris video games together with a recreation of Pajitnov’s very first model of Tetris, developed for the Soviet-designed Electronika 60 pc.
VGC’s 5-star Tetris Endlessly evaluation referred to as it “a masterful celebration of the of the medium’s most seminal sequence”, concluding that the bundle “is dealt with with such consideration to element that this needs to be thought of the definitive telling of the Tetris story”.
