Tetris Turns 30 36
An anonymous reader writes "Wildly popular video game Tetris launched 30 years ago today, and continues to capture the hearts of folks around the world. Topping best-of video game lists for years, the colorful block puzzle has sold an estimated 170 million copies—about 100 million of which are played on mobile devices."
Re:Turds for Nerds (Score:4, Funny)
I was deeply disappointed when I found that most of the log went into the hole at the bottom of the bowl and out of my view.
Congrats on clearing all four rows at once!
but.... (Score:2)
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Jenga?
Still waiting for a straight piece (Score:5, Funny)
Video (Score:2)
Tetris was 30 years ago? (Score:2)
If your goal was to make me feel old right before the weekend, mission accomplished.
So good, so good (Score:4, Interesting)
What a game! Why does EA get to distribute it?
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What a game! Why does EA get to distribute it?
To prove that there's one thing EA can't fuck up!
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To prove that there's one thing EA can't fuck up!
You're going to be sorely disappointed, just look behind PapaEA. Look at all those corpses...
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I had the same experience. It's what led me to post my comment. Too much create-your-account nagging that you couldn't turn off. I'm speaking of the paid Android version.
The original wasn't "colorful blocks" (Score:2)
Blocks were composed of [ and ] symbols on the text terminal.
It booted from a 8" floppy on a Soviet clone of PDP-11.
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Neat.
Screenshot here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... [wikipedia.org]
I'm pretty sure I played the Spectrum Holobyte version on the PC as my introduction to the game -- the Russian-themed backgrounds bring back some EGA memories :)
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Is there something superior to your shortcut to the image (versus mine) that I should be aware of?
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The full quote that you so strategically took out of context is...
the colorful block puzzle has sold an estimated 170 million copies
So unless 170 of those 8" floppies were sold, it's a good bet the original is not what was being referred to.
It's the GO guy instead. (Score:1)
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Unforgivable!
favorite version (Score:3, Interesting)
(Or was it the worst? I forget...)
Ghostbusters will be 30 too! (Score:2)
Tomorrow. Wow. :)
Long time Tetris fan (Score:1)
Numbers seem to be too small (Score:3)
It was the music (Score:2)
To be honest the game was not that extraordinary, but it had its appeal. I think however it was the music [youtube.com] that really made the game popular. Seeing that the game was all about matching up blocks that fit together, it was very poetic that they used a Russian folk song that was about courtship [wikipedia.org].
Back then, programmers had a bit of culture. These hipsters are just faking it.
Tetris 30 years already! (Score:2)
Wow... that means I wasted 30 years of my life so far!
Btw does anyone knows which keyboard has cursor keys that don't wear out so quickly? I hate having to stop the game just because I have to buy yet another keyboard.
A humble contribution to the us gamers (Score:3)
I'll hope this is going to be visible on google maps one day: http://imgur.com/a/rkQpO [imgur.com]
Oblig xkcd (Score:1)
Oblig xkcd [xkcd.com]