Tetris Turns 25

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Topics: VIDEO GAMES
by Daba
18049 Posts
Ready to get things pooping
10 months ago
2 years, 8 months ago

Gameboy Tetris changed the game. I remember finding my Christmas presents 2 weeks before the holiday the year Gameboy came out. I ended up playing Gameboy and Tetris then putting it back in the box every day for two weeks straight. My mom was never that good at hiding presents.

 

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 It is the 25th anniversary of the greatest puzzle game of all time: Tetris. In honor of Alexey Pajitnov's awesome creation, I've tracked down some awesome ways to play Tetris on your PC or Mac -- for free.

Tetris 1989 (www.tetrisfriends.com) -- Although Tetris might have debuted in June of 1984, most of us were first introduced to this addictive puzzler in 1989 on a green and yellow tinged screen. As the pack-in game with the original Game Boy, Tetris was catapulted to a whole new audience of fans. Although we had Tetris (and Dr. Mario) for our NES, it wasn't until I got a Game Boy for Christmas in 

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by andross
2939 Posts
I saw the Watch the Throne tour, and it was like seeing the moon landing.
2 months, 1 week ago
2 years, 8 months ago

Nice story Daba. I still have a gamboy with Tetris that I play on the crapper.

 

My top score is 196 rows. I have tried hundreds of times to break 200, but I can't do it.


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