'Tetris' celebrates 25 years of gaming fun

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'Tetris' celebrates 25 years of gaming fun
Topic Started: Jun 7 2009, 09:11 PM (265 Views)
Ragana	Jun 7 2009, 09:11 PM Post #1
Posts: 215 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Oct 16 2008	This was an interesting read. By far one of the most addicting and ingenous games ever created. I must of racked up countless thousands hours playing Tetris. ~Tom Posted Image Quote: The video game "Tetris" has been addictive and entertaining since it was first created 25 years ago, its Russian inventor says. Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov said when he first created the popular video game, he was immediately entranced like its users by its simple but engaging premise, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) said Saturday. "The program wasn't complicated, Pajitnov remembered. "There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn't stop." The video game, which forces users to place various falling shapes together in order to form lines, was first released as an IBM computer game. But when "Tetris" came out on Nintendo's Game Boy system in 1989, it became an instant international sensation. The Game Boy version of "Tetris" has resulted in more than 35 million copies being sold to date, The Tetris Co. said. Pajitnov, who only began receiving royalties from such sales in 1996, said he initially created the game in 1984 as a distraction from his work at Russia's Computing Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. "I started to put together all kinds of mathematical puzzles and diversions that I had loved all my life," he said.
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Volcom	Jun 7 2009, 09:56 PM Post #2
Posts: 6 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Jun 7 2009	wow... Tetris is classic. Its probably one of my favorite classic games along with Pacman. But wow its hard to beleve its been around 25 years already.
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Retrotune	Jun 10 2009, 03:24 PM Post #3
Posts: 120 Group: Members Member #32 Joined: Jun 10 2009	Time flies by when your enjoying a great game of Tetris :D
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ChaoSXDemon	Jun 10 2009, 04:22 PM Post #4
Posts: 187 Group: Members Member #33 Joined: Jun 10 2009	Instant Classic! I made a Tetris in Java back when I was Gr. 10 XD
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Retrotune	Jun 10 2009, 07:25 PM Post #5
Posts: 120 Group: Members Member #32 Joined: Jun 10 2009	ChaoSXDemon Jun 10 2009, 04:22 PM Instant Classic! I made a Tetris in Java back when I was Gr. 10 XD Haha cool, great way to pass the time huh?
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ChaoSXDemon	Jun 10 2009, 11:31 PM Post #6
Posts: 187 Group: Members Member #33 Joined: Jun 10 2009	Yeah, it was more a OOP practice. I'm writing in C# now with my new game using DirectX.
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Aaron5604	Aug 5 2009, 10:31 PM Post #7
Posts: 2 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: Aug 5 2009	I agree 100% that Tetris Will always be remembered as a legendary game, although IMHO I think Lumines (PSP) surpasses Tetris in ingenuity.
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mcguire720	Aug 6 2009, 01:08 PM Post #8
Posts: 40 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Jun 7 2009	Ahh tetris, one the few games i could play for the whole class period in school lol ^_^
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Duncreek	Jan 11 2010, 03:59 PM Post #9
Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #98 Joined: Jan 11 2010	Fun fact on Tetris... if played for about half an hour within six hours of viewing something traumatic, PTSD symptoms are radically decreased. Basically, the pieces of the brain that would normally be devoted to forming flashbacks are being preoccupied by figuring out what to do with that irritating z shaped piece.
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