Saturday, 06 June 2009
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Tetris: 25 Years of Falling with Style
Unless you just came out of a coma and awoke this day to visit HardestLevel (which would be totally awesome, by the way), you've probably played a game or two or 10,000 of Tetris. According to its Wikipedia page, Tetris was created on this day in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov. Come 2009, its popularity has failed to subside. I imagine kids in high schools today are still downloading Tetris to their graphing calculators while they should be paying attention in pre-calc. Not that I ever did that or anything.
Tetris' sustained prevalence in the gaming world, I believe, is a testament to the simplicity of its design. There are falling blocks of different sizes. You have to make them into whole lines for them to disappear by moving and rotating them before they reach the top. That's it! All you need is a controller and one button, maybe two for a quick drop of the block. Anyone can learn to play it, but it does take some degree of strategy and pattern recognition skills to be very good.
Undoubtedly, Tetris is a classic and a major part of the video game culture. Mr. Pajitnov, we salute you!
What is your favorite version of Tetris?
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I like the version that came out for Super Nintendo, where it was paired with Doctor Mario.
I like one I have, I think it's called Tetris plus, where the screen starts with blocks on it and you have to get a little animated archeologist to the bottom of the screen, and you can't squish him. I mostly just love Tetris and have had it on every cell phone I've had.
I love the original tetris for the Gameboy. That game alone was difficult, yet sooo awesome. I think I got to level 11 and then it was a lost cause. The blocks were raining down and I had all of 2 secs to flip it around and fit in place. XD God I miss that game so much.
Which reminds me of the original Mario game. That game rocked something fierce as well. :D
My favorite is the the Tetrisphere game that came out for the N64. Don't get me wrong I have mad respect for the orignal but nothing touches tetrisphere. My friends I spent hours if not days playing this game.
praise be tetris. all hail the god of puzzle games.
seriously, i bought this game on wiiware and it is really fun. i play with my brothers and sisters and we just demolish each other with row after row of blocks. i was a tetris addict since 1997
Tetris is awesome.
Theme B FTW!
Any version that employs two buttons are fine by me. (:
I just gotta have two drop speeds. lol
Game Boy
@willow_ann209@xanga - I remember that game it was on the Playstation 1 well at least one version of it was, not sure if they made others.
NES version is classic!
Am I the only one here who never saw the appeal of this game? Give me Columns anyday...
NES.The original basically.
I LOVE TETRISSSSS!!!!! its basically my life.
tetris is hands-down the best game ever.
Tetripz!, actually. A combination of Tetris & LSD, but without the LSD.
@kachino@xanga - Theme B rocks as hard now as it did back then. \m/
@laytexduckie@xanga - Technically, the original version would be the one for Электроника 60( elektronika 60). ^_^
Yeah, the NES one did it for me—the music had that special NESified musical sound (must have been the sound chip in the console).
And once I had those CDs just full of shareware games (that no-one bothers to register) which included a 3D version that was hard to play and the graphics were confusing.
Yet another one was a handheld version made in Taiwan and selling for 10 bucks or something at one of those cheap import shops—it was literally called 'Falling Block Game.'
I feel a bit sorry for the author and how other people made money by more or less ripping off his idea.
I just played tetris online 2 days ago. :) It's so addicting.
I like Eggo Mania, which is pretty much tetris on PS2 =p but otherwise I'm not big on tetris whatsoever =|
@Ndaniel@xanga - It's ok, I'm not a big fan either XD
@willow_ann209@xanga - I totally had that game! My sister and I used to play it together, listening to our boom box. Ah, the good old days.
Tetris is amazing! I used to have a handheld Tetris game but lost it.
I downloaded a widget Tetris. It doesn't have different colors, a grid, or a quick-drop button though. I tried finding a better version but couldn't.
I like the original NES version of Tetris. Just plain old regular Tetris is the best. I've played the N64 version, and I now have the gamecube version which i play on my Wii. There are lots of different variations included on those versions, and they're fun, but nothing beats the classic version. I just recently downloaded Tetris on to my cell phone as well. Good times!
@willow_ann209@xanga - omg dude. i thought i was the only one that played that one!
with that being said, i love Tetris Plus and Tetris 2 for super nintendo
the night before i was born, my parents stayed up latelatelate that night and played tetris until they couldnt stay awake anymore
oh, and the tetris for the original xbox