Tetris is making a comeback. With a new version. I didn’t know it had ever left. Here’s the new ad.
New York…
And Seoul…
Tag: Tetris
Putting the inverted L back into London
Piecing games together
Have you ever wondered where all the elements of a successful game come from? Well. They’re painstakingly put together in factories. Truly. Here’s proof. From Tetris, Mario, and Sonic.
If (boring) games were movies…
We’ve all seen what happens when popular games become movies. Like Hitman. And Doom. And Super Mario Bros. They never live up to the hype.
Crap games*. Or not particularly complex games. Make for awesomeness.
*These games are not technically crap.
Variations on a theme
Guitar hero and Rubiks Cube combinations are so last year. Real geek prodigies join string quartets and play medleys of game theme songs…
Unblocking the queue
Thanks to the awesome power of Google Reader I have a stack of things (more than 200) that I have the best intentions to post.
Sometimes these build up, and as you’ll no doubt note from the post of Mario stuff, and the post of clocks, they are often variations of a theme.
This post is all about Tetris. Enjoy.
The perfect Tetris fit out requires perfect Tetris cushions…
Like these… 
These Tetris shelves are part of a bigger collection from a pretty clever design firm. They’re the almost perfect modular storage system…
Tetris is so good that it’s captured the heart, minds and skin of fans.
There’s also this salt and pepper shaker created by this clever Flickr user.
Credit for finding these gems must go to Walyou.
(potential) shirt of the day
Glennz.com is running a reader poll on the next shirt they may or may not produce… there are some crackers (though they’re always a little obscure without the caption)… like this one called – it’s a coffee serving robot from the future.
There’s also this Tetris Airdrop…
And these kung fu sumos…
How Tetris Works
Producing piece after piece of blocked awesomeness is no mean feat – ever wondered where those Tetris blocks come from… well now you know…
TETRIS CF #1 from WooDUS on Vimeo.
Found here.
Block party
It seems my blog-off rival, the dazzlingly insightful Ben McLaughlin knows which side his blog traffic is buttered on – he’s joined the Tetris loving fun – pointing to Google’s 25th birthday tribute… which looked a little like this…
Higher heights
Well, I was expecting to see a spike in visits thanks to that bookofjoe linkage so I checked my stats. And there was a spike – though not from bookofjoe – instead it comes from this German? site (translated). 777 visitors. From an article about Tetris featuring this translated passage:
“Even a Tetris Olympics is on the way.Real Tetris fans will Gesumse not all that upset. They sing the song to the peddlers.And wait for the next block. (Detlef Borchers) / (It / c’t) “
I’m the “Real Tetris Fan” linked there. Bookofjoe has so far produced nine hits.
Cake that’ll fill the gaps
In honour of Tetris’s 25th birthday I give you this. A geeky Tetris wedding cake. Beautiful. No doubt my wife (and little sister number 1 – who made our cake) is thankful that we’re already married.
This is part of an article featuring geeky wedding cakes which also featured this Mario cake…
Happy Birthday: Tetris
Tetris turned 25 yesterday (or today, depending on where you sit on the international date line). 25 years ago Russian progammer Aleksei Pazhitnov sat down and wrote the most addictive game ever.
It is arguably the greatest Russian invention ever. Greater even than the Great Moscow Circus.
The Guardian has a great feature on the game to celebrate the milestone.
Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer – the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 – and began writing programs for it.
But not numerical ones. He ended up creating one that would infest the dreams of those who played it, spurring addictions and even the suspicion that it was a Russian plot to divert the youth of America in a pointless exercise.
Here’s what it originally looked like…
And here’s what the creator looked like in 1989…
And here’s what he looks like now (on the right)…
And here are all my previous Tetris posts to mark the occasion.
Herbal Tetris
For those of you looking for some other Tetris inspired design – perhaps to complement the Tetris dining set or Tetris shelving I’ve mentioned before – here’s a little set of herb pots, or perhaps coloured dishes for keeping safety pins and stuff in…
Get soap in all the right places
It can be challenging to get Tetris pieces in the right place at the right time, just as it can be challenging to get soap into all the nooks and crannies… ok, that’s probably more talk about bathing than you can handled, particularly if you visualise things as you read… these Tetris soaps from Etsy might help.
As subtle as a brick wall
I’ve posted a bunch of “Tetris in real life” type things before – but they were never like this. You’ll find this, amongst a bunch of trippy photography/editing here at alltelleringet.com.
It’s subtle. Like a punch to the face. Perhaps like this punch to the face…
