Saving the planet is the game to play with Henk Rogers

The Accutron Show

What is going on with the planet? How much damage are we bringing to the environment? Most importantly, what can we do to save it? For this episode of The Accutron Show, our hosts meet with Henk Rogers, entrepreneur and video game designer. Henk is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game 'The Black Onyx' and securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle Tetris on video game consoles, which served as the inspiration for one of Apple's latest movie hits. Today Henk is focused on his Blue Planet Foundation to raise awareness and foster action for clean energy in Hawaii, a mission he realized following a near death experience. Tune in to discover more!

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

6:40 My "aha" moment came when I was in the back of an ambulance on the way to a hospital in Hawaii. I had a heart attack. I had just sold my company, I was looking at the ceiling and I remember thinking, "Are you kidding me? I haven't spent any of the money yet!"

19:00 It's not the United Nations that will change the situation. Their ambitions are not high enough and for those ambitions nobody's on track. We have to accept that. It's the united people that are going to get this done. We as individuals need to take action in our own lives.

31:10 My real claim to fame is that I was the first to bring role play games to Japan in 1983. So I started traveling the world looking for more role games to play in Japan and I found Tetris at a consumer electronics show right when the Gameboy was coming out.