Awards and Recognition
- In 1996, GameSpot named him as the fourth most influential computer game developer of all time.
- On March 7, 2007, he received the Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award. The award was given for pioneering the casual games market.
- On June 24, 2009, he received the honorary award at the LARA - Der Deutsche Games Award in Cologne, Germany.
- In 2012, IGN included Pajitnov on their list of 5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders, calling him "the ultimate video game one-hit wonder."
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