Tetris turns 25 years young, still puzzles the best of us
By Darren Murph 
posted June 6th 2009 9:36PM
posted June 6th 2009 9:36PM
posted June 6th 2009 9:36PM
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Z and S pieces on the first turn suck.
SOOO true
http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
@oGMo
That's pure evil!!
Back then years ago, I was playing Tetris on a Gameboy and I was literally dreaming about falling bricks. One thing that bothered me is that I dreamt I was watching the news and I watched that a meteorite had been recovered from a meteor shower last night. The meteor is a metallic "T" tetromino and one "S" and a "Z."
I must be playing too much. >_<
Now I dream of falling notes from too much DJMAX Portable.
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF206-Game_Boy.gif
lol he has a zune gameboy.
I remember playing Tetris on my gameboy whilst going to work and staying on three stops past where I was meant to get off cos I was on a roll, baby!
Anyone else just feel like Tetris should have always just been around?
Jesus.
Pathetic how Google glorifies the invention of Tetris rather than paying tribute to those who really deserve it.
I think he was referring to the participates of D-day.
Yeah, iPhone is just an idiot
*participants
So you can't honor those who actually did the fighting, they didn't make the decisions to go to war, they were just the pawns.
Shut the fuck up iPhone, it's because of the people who fought that war you are allowed you fucking idiotic opinion
iPhone...... mind giving us your adress? i want to see if your afraid to die........
What your an idiot we're talking about previous wars and the heros fought them, not about trying start another one. I think you need to setup an appointment with the Dept of Homeland Sec and get your problems taken care of at the Cuban resort. Just shut up.
Engadget is a tech blog. I'm not saying that this isn't an important day or that those that dies don't deserve to be honored, but I personally wouldn't go to a Memorial Day event and talk about gadgets.
Topics to be discussed are venue-dependent.
It's not like Tetris is recognized every year. This is its 25th anniversary and last I checked, there is no computer game observance day. There is, however, a Memorial day in vritually all countries to remember your fallen heroes. If this had been maybe the 50th anniversary of D-Day, perhaps it would have been in contention.
Oh, I love these kind of people.
@deanb: The question about Hitler's religious beliefs may be a little more complicated than that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_beliefs
Sorry, after playing through the last level, on the hardest setting, of Tetris for the original GB, I officially had enough of that game for the rest of my life. Now Joust, *there's* a game!
Arguably the best portable game ever. If not for this, portable gaming might have never taken off.
I don't know anyone who longed for a "T" to come... Its all about the Straight Line!!!! FTW!
I came here to say this. Come on Engadget, if you were true Tetris fans then you'd know that the I is the piece that you wait for, not the T.
yeah and especially for "that one last gap on the right". no one wants a T for that... not even rotated.... everyone just wants a I .
Yup. I was reading and I was like - who the hell wants a T? We all longed for a | , did we not? It always came down to that too. I am only 28 so I know the people writing this blog are not much younger, if not older. Hello... have you EVER played tetris?
I remember using a Game Gear to cheat so that EVERY piece was an "I" piece... ah, good times.
You just gotta build up that huge wall of pieces with only one column empty, pray for a straight piece to come, then listen to that awesome sound it makes when you get 4 lines at once.
everyday i play during math class on my Ti-84!
best game ever.
Yes, in our math class almost everyone played it instead of paying attention. Well, that or Bubble Bobble.
Tan-ta-ta-tan-ta-ta-tan-ta-ta-tan-ta-ta-tan ta-tan tan tan tan tan
Thanks Engadget. Now it's stuck for another 2 years.
got caught playing it on my original game boy back in 6th grade during a national geographic video that i was supposed to be taking notes on... teacher put it in her desk, said she'd give it back at the end of the day. it got stolen at lunch. bitch refused to replace it.
i spent practically all or my year 10 playing a mixture of this and call of duty 1 on the school computers, almost every lesson of every day, not even joking. very very good times. perhaps one of my favourtie games of all time
Happy Birthday Tetris
Whats this TI BS. HP 48G FTW!
TI-86 actually.
Brings back memories of boarding school 1989 and the 2 Japanese kids returning from Japan with their brand new Nintendo Game Boy! How jealous were the rest of us... gosh the stuff we sold and sacrificed just so we could borrow and play Tetris! Those two kids were treated like kings!
.... Lets be honest - the straight line is the best .. we all built up for that!
One of my strongest childhood memories is my mom kicking me off of my Nintendo or if we wasn't home taking my gameboy so she could play Tetris! I Still love that game though.
If anyone is interested in how to create Tetris, I wrote an article for the codeproject with a detailed explanation of how to code it using Visual Basic .NET : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/FallingBlocks2008.aspx
GAH!!! VB!!! NOOOO, MY EYES!!!!!
Must... go... look... at... a... real... programming... langauge...
*curls into fetal position*
Here, have a perl script.
*gives script*
Or playing it for so long that your eyes dried out and you couldn't close them without it hurting...
Open Utorrent - Help - About Utorrnet hit the 'T' on your keyboard n celebrate the last 25 years.
haha wow that really worked
i had no idea what it was gonna do
but sweet!
damn... doesn't work in the os x version
so let's all have a flamewar!!
Holy crap! I never knew! LOVE U!
Triple T-Spin for victory! Once you master this, you can crush lesser foes in 10 seconds.
I made some cakes for Tetris's birthday. http://www.flickr.com/photos/74422239@N00/